Sentences with phrase «in evolutionary studies»

The team of 35 to 40 scientists was led by Lee Berger, research professor in the Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Generally, credible scientists will base conclusions on what a significant portion of the evidence suggests, not based on the outlier data which is presented in evolutionary studies.

Not exact matches

It's like going to Answers in Genesis for information about evolutionary biology or a Scientology website to study psychiatry.

, the irreducible complexity problem explained so clearly by md2205 (research the parts of the flagellum bacterium — amazing), probability of something happening — for the many years evolution has been studied and not a single example of a transitional fossil (please research before replying — there have been MANY confirmed fakes) or an evolutionary event in progress.

Vestigial features, study of ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, examining pseudogenes, study of endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl all add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

In his book The Evolution of Desire, evolutionary psychologist David Buss notes, «According to a United Nations study of millions of people in forty - five societies, 39 percent of divorces occur when there are no children, 26 percent when there is only a single child, 19 percent where there are two, and less than 3 percent when there are four or more.&raquIn his book The Evolution of Desire, evolutionary psychologist David Buss notes, «According to a United Nations study of millions of people in forty - five societies, 39 percent of divorces occur when there are no children, 26 percent when there is only a single child, 19 percent where there are two, and less than 3 percent when there are four or more.&raquin forty - five societies, 39 percent of divorces occur when there are no children, 26 percent when there is only a single child, 19 percent where there are two, and less than 3 percent when there are four or more.»

kinda like the field of science i dreamed up called «evolutionary biology» whereby imaginary skin, muscles, tendons, organs, blood, etc are studied and published in «scientific journals».

The link between the belief in an angry God and mental illness was studied in the context of the Evolutionary Threat Assessment System Theory, which states that anxiety disorders are mainly the result of the brain's not properly interpreting threats.

See Elizabeth M, Kraus», «Thought Before It Hardens: A Study in the Evolutionary Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.»

Tangible proof can be found by studying vestigial features, ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, pseudogenes, endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl... all of these things add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.

The evolutionary steps were worked out first in Victorian times by the study of mammal embryos and then the fossils confirmed it:

Candidate in Developmental Psychology, also at the University of British Columbia, where she is studying how certain evolutionary factors affect children's empathic behavior.

I had studied current neuroscience, brain research, evolutionary medicine and lactation in humans and other mammals.

Studies in evolutionary neurobiology posit that these allegiances are so entrenched that individuals could sacrifice themselves in order to help ensure the well - being of their in - group.

In 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiologIn 1859, Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory reinforced the conception that animals could serve as models for humans in the study of biology and physiologin the study of biology and physiology.

Now, a new study on lizards suggests that sleep states once thought to occur only in mammals and birds have much older evolutionary origins.

The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.

If the finding is correct, it indicates that the relationship between humans and Neandertals goes further back and is more complicated than scientists supposed, says Sarah Tishkoff, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study.

«This provides evidence for the hypothesis that gender differences in intergroup conflict can have an evolutionary origin, as only males seem to benefit from displaying heroism,» says Joost Leunissen, a psychologist at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

That's really important,» says Peter Savolainen, an evolutionary geneticist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm who was not involved in either study.

A new study published in the journal Nature, led by evolutionary biologist Dr Alistair Evans from Monash University, took a fresh look at the teeth of humans and fossil hominins.

A claim of multiple domestications for dogs requires extraordinary evidence, says study coauthor Krishna Veeramah, an evolutionary geneticist at Stony Brook University in New York.

In the Eickbush lab, he began a study of the evolutionary relationships among non-long-terminal-repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons, which are abundant in the genomes of animals, plants, and fungIn the Eickbush lab, he began a study of the evolutionary relationships among non-long-terminal-repeat (non-LTR) retrotransposons, which are abundant in the genomes of animals, plants, and fungin the genomes of animals, plants, and fungi.

Gaucher works within the Evogenics Focus Group, which attempts to interpret genomic information from a historical or evolutionary perspective in order to study the origin and adaptation of life on Earth, and perhaps other planets.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

EPFL scientists have carried out a genomic and evolutionary study of a large and enigmatic family of human proteins, to demonstrate that it is responsible for harnessing the millions of transposable elements in the human genome.

To get a better view of how this might occur, the researchers looked at gene activity in the anterior pituitary glands of foxes in a breeding program at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, designed to study the evolutionary processes associated with domestication.

Data published by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium indicate that somewhere between 113 and 223 genes present in bacteria and in the human genome are absent in well - studied organisms — such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans — that lie in between those two evolutionary extremes.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

«Our goal here was to understand the molecular underpinnings of an important evolutionary transition, not to create a «dino - chicken» simply for the sake of it,» said Bhullar, lead author of the study, published online May 12 in the journal Evolution.

«Turtles are interesting because they offer an exceptional case to understand the big evolutionary changes that occurred in vertebrate history,» explains Dr. Naoki Irie, from the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, who led the study.

But recent studies on primates and preschool children suggest that the development of mendacity is more subtle than this and may have its roots deep in our evolutionary past.

Dr Rhonda Snook, a co-author of the study and Reader in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, added: «Understanding how new species form remains one of the most enduring problems in evolutionary biology.

«Conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies since has supposed that the origins of knapping stone tools was linked to the emergence of the genus Homo, and this technological development was tied to climate change and the spread of savannah grasslands,» says Dr. Lewis, a Research Assistant Professor at TBI.

A comprehensive and technically sophisticated study published in the May 7 issue of Science, «A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome,» by Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologists Richard E. Green, Svante Pääbo and 54 of their colleagues, demonstrates that «between 1 and 4 % of the genomes of people in Eurasia are derived from Neandertals» and that «Neandertals are on average closer to individuals in Eurasia than to individuals in Africa.»

For example, research on children's play in extant hunter - gatherer societies, and evolutionary psychology studies of other mammalian young, have identified play as an adaptation that enabled early humans to become powerful learners and problem - solvers.

But as I followed the citation trail and actually started looking at the primary studies that were cited in support of those conclusions — and thinking seriously about the methods that had been employed in the studies, the presuppositions behind them, and whether there were alternative evolutionary hypotheses for the things studied that were not in fact being ruled out by the experiments — I began to find that it wasn't all that convincing.

In a subsequent study, Orians and Heerwagen applied their evolutionary perspective to 35 paintings of sunsets, by such artists as Frederick Church and Martin Johnson Heade, on the theory that sunset would have been fraught with tension for our ancestors.

The researchers headed up by Claudia Vigano and Abigail Bouwman of the human aDNA laboratory at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine — the only laboratory of its kind in Switzerland — studied a thalassemia allele called cod39?

All of these are being merged in the study of the history of life in evolutionary developmental biology, or evo devo.

For many years it remained hidden among the largest fossil collection in South Africa at the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at Wits University.

The study got its start with Vitzthum's interest in the evolutionary role of social structures — grandmothering in this case.

The study, led by evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, also marks a milestone in collaboration between geneticists and linguists, who for years stayed in their separate camps.

«As someone who's studied evolutionary biology for a long time, I think it has a real wow factor,» says Sam Brown, a microbiologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who wasn't involved in the study.

Discussing a wide range of ideas and empirical studies that support them, West - Eberhard focuses on showing what recent findings in development, physiology, and behavior suggest about the origins of evolutionary novelties.

In their study, the researchers found no evidence for the widespread idea that evolutionary adaptations to these two aspects of climate change would interfere with each other.

«The study has the grandeur of providing a big picture of the advent of farming and how this shift from hunting and gathering to food production had a crucial impact on the evolutionary history of Europe, East Africa, India and Central Asia,» says Carles LaLueza - Fox, a palaeogeneticist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barceevolutionary history of Europe, East Africa, India and Central Asia,» says Carles LaLueza - Fox, a palaeogeneticist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in BarceEvolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain.

Second, in my study, the sample of physically abused children was 10 times the size of the sample in [a study by evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson].