Sentences with phrase «of evolutionary design»

While Cameron - Weir's new sculptures are informed by her study of historical objects made to protect, punish, or stand in for bodies — medieval armor or torture devices, and early - Renaissance orthopedics — they also reflect her interests in aspects of evolutionary design, such as corporal symmetry and the possibility of biological systems that harbor intelligence and self - awareness.

In terms of aesthetics, the Audi Q8 Sport Concept is more of an evolutionary design rather than a revolutionary design.

I personally don't like using my brain so far outside sort of the evolutionary design spec that has been there.

An ultra thin (3 mm) puncture resistant sole allows your feet to be as millions of years of evolutionary design intended Barefoot!

Not exact matches

Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, have issued statements rejecting intelligent design and a peti.tion supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.

The evolutionary principles of natural selection, variation, and recombination are the basis for genetic algorithms, an engineering technique that has many practical applications, including aerospace engineering, architecture, astrophysics, data mining, drug discovery and design, electrical engineering, finance, geophysics, materials engineering, military strategy, pattern recognition, robotics, scheduling, and systems engineering.

The same applies to its alter ego Intelligent Design — no testable hypotheses, no predictions, just a lot a bogus attempts to poke holes in evolutionary theory, all of which have been soundly refuted.

The possible number of different evolutionary pathways for something complex to arise are almost infinite and so it is almost impossible to prove something is designed purely on the basis of how complex it is.

Evolutionary theists would concur with the IDT advocates that at some point the search for adequate explanation must appeal to the notion of divine intelligence — or better, divine wisdom — if the idea of God is to have any relevance at all, However, they are not obsessed with the idea of design.

They embed the evolutionary data, often unconsciously, in a purely physicalist worldview, taking Darwinian science to be the ultimate explanation of life's complexity They have no room for any theological «argument to design» since to them it is clearly blind physical processes alone, and not God, that account for what seems to us humans to be so design - like in finches» beaks and dinosaurs» plates.

The first of these is made up of the evolutionary biologists themselves; the second consists of those who believe that evolution requires a materialist, and hence atheistic, interpretation (evolutionary materialism); the third group comprises the proponents of Intelligent Design Theory (IDT); and the fourth is the evolutionary theists, those who consider Darwinian evolution not only compatible with biblical faith, but an illuminating framework for arriving at a deeper understanding of God than is implied in the notion of a designer.

In brief: Such websites point to logical and factual flaws in the writings of the Intelligent Design movement and take issue as well with their intellectual honesty — as when, ever eager to write the obituary for Darwinian theory, they fail to acknowledge progress in evolutionary biology.

They claim that scientific theories that ascribe the great role to chance and random events in the evolutionary processes should be replaced, or supplemented, by theories acknowledging the thread of intelligent design in the universe.

The defenders of evolutionary orthodoxy raise the alarm at any suggestion of intelligent design or purpose, thereby implicitly endorsing a narrowly dogmatic version of evolutionary theory.

As Provine summarized the matter, «The destructive implications of evolutionary biology extend far beyond the assumptions of organized religion to a much deeper and more pervasive belief, held by the vast majority of people, that non-mechanistic organizing designs or forces are somehow responsible for the visible order of the physical universe, biological organisms, and human moral order.»

The central problem with «intelligent design» — and one which Fr Stephen Dingley pointed out when he reviewed Behe et al.'s book in the March / April 2001 edition of the Faith magazine — is that it posits, justas happily as would neo-Darwinians, that the evolutionary process is a «random» and unguided one, alongside which they then place «intelligent causes,» as if they were competitors.

All the faith he once had in a grand design of the evolutionary scheme forsook him.

ID is thus a scientific disagreement with the core claim of evolutionary theory that the apparent design of livingsystems is an illusion.»

ID / creationists like to invoke «common creator / common design» but this simply fails when considering the validated evolutionary predictions of where defunct genes should be found.

Occasional pockets of intelligent design do not extend to the whole evolutionary mechanism.

He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.

A call to return to our evolutionary roots; to get in sync with our metabolic design honed through eons of survival to optimize mental and physical health.

According to evolutionary theory, the way something exists in nature is simply a consequence of the constraints imposed by the environment and the organisms resources for adaptation - not some ideal or optimal design imagined by an intelligent creator.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has responded today to the findings of a survey finding 54 % Briton's agreed with the view that «Evolutionary theories should be taught in science lessons in schools together with other possible perspectives, such as intelligent design and creationism.»

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.

Richard Coss, now a psychology professor at the University of California at Davis, largely invented the idea of evolutionary aesthetics in a paper he wrote 30 years ago as a young graduate in industrial design.

This knowledge could play an important role in the design of future vaccination campaigns, but also highlights a deeper evolutionary logic which modern humans sometimes are governed by: as social beings, in the right circumstances, we can afford to take into account a broader societal context, but when we get the chance to invest in the evolutionary «core values» (survival and procreation) the larger context is easily forgotten.

The robots» simple design and limited variety of behaviors may actually force the robots down specific evolutionary paths, he cautions: «You [can] somehow constrain the evolutionary process too much and you get [out] what you put into the system.»

«From an evolutionary psychology perspective, the structure and functions [of psychopaths» brains] may be a little different, but they're properly designed for engagement in predatory behaviors.

Our study addresses this design issue and presents an evolutionary optimization approach that was not only able to reproduce the original phase diagram detailing regions of known crystals, but also to elucidate previously unobserved structures.»

He stayed on for a Ph.D., specialising in bioinformatics and the design of computer tools for the study of evolutionary genomics.

McCarter, who also serves as a trustee of the University of Chicago, has emerged as one of the leading critics of the intelligent design movement and an outspoken proponent of teaching modern evolutionary theory to all students.

Hoekstra, Weber, and Harvard evolutionary biologist Brant Peterson also developed a genetic technique to link aspects of tunnel design to specific locations in the genome of the second generation.

Despite the tone of your editorial, evolutionary biologists can not use the argument of a lack of design in regard to...

Instead of being centrally driven, the creative design element can be more crowdsourced; products may take on an evolutionary character as more people get involved in visualizing and producing them.

These creatures don't consciously use physics the way that humans design and use tools, of course, but they are evolutionary marvels

However, it is part of the received wisdom in the field of reliability engineering that no new design is wholly revolutionary or wholly evolutionary.

«These are occasional finds, so you can not do a proper sampling design,» says lead researcher Tomas Hrbek, an evolutionary biologist at the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil.

As the 2005 school year got underway, a new requirement in a Pennsylvania public school district mandated that all 9th - grade biology students listen to a statement questioning the validity of evolutionary theory and promoting intelligent design.

«It is important to note that our study was not specifically designed to evaluate an evolutionary trade - off,» he observes, «but our findings support the hypothesis that evolution of our advanced cognitive abilities may have come at a cost — a predisposition to schizophrenia.»

Principal Collaborators: Jean - Jacques Hublin, Director of the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Tracy Kivell, School for Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent Mark F. Skinner, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University Philipp Gunz, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Dieter Pahr, Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics, Vienna University of Technology Christophe Boesch, Department of Primatology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Shara Bailey, Department of Anthropology, New York University)

Now test - tube evolutionary research has become more ambitious, and its practitioners have begun to manipulate their glass - encased worlds like stage directors, bringing together larger casts of characters and creating ingenious set designs in which their roles can unfold.

Evolutionary design of bone scaffolds with reference to material selection.

Contains the philosophy of evolutionary architecture; the research of natural forms, structures, habitats and processes; and the architectural work that exemplifies this evolutionary approach to design.

«Deficient neuron - microglia signaling results in impaired functional brain connectivity and social behavior» Y. Zhan, R.C. Paolicelli, F. Sforazzini, L. Weinhard, G. Bolasco, F. Pagani, A. L. Vyssotski, A. Bifone, A. Gozzi, D. Ragozzino, C.T. Gross Nature Neuroscience 17 (3), 400-4006 (2014) «USPIO - loaded Red Blood Cells as a biomimetic MR contrast agent: a relaxometric study» A. Boni, D. Ceratti, A. Antonelli, C. Sfara, M. Magnani, E. Manuali, S. Salamida, A. Gozzi, and A. Bifone Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging 9, 229 - 236 (2014) «Distributed BOLD and CBV - weighted resting - state networks in the mouse brain» F. Sforazzini, A.J. Schwarz, A. Galbusera, A. Bifone, and A. Gozzi NeuroImage 87, 403 - 415 (2014) «Antimicrobial peptides design by evolutionary multiobject optimization» G. Maccari, M. Di Luca, R. Nifosì, F. Caldarelli, G. Signore, C. Boccardi, and A. Bifone PloS Computational Biology 9 (9): e1003212 (2013) «Differential effect of orexin - 1 and crf - 1 antagonism on stress circuits: a fMRI study in the rat with the pharmacological stressor yohimbine» A. Gozzi, S: Lepore, E: Merlo Pich, and A. Bifone Neuropsychopharmacology 38 (11): 2120 - 2130 (2013) «Water dispersal and functionalization of hydrophobic iron oxide nanoparticles with lipid - modified poly (amidoamine) dendrimers» A. Boni, L. Albertazzi, C. Innocenti, M. Gemmi, and A. Bifone.

So when you throw a lot of stimuli at it, it thinks that you are in danger because our body's evolutionary were meant, were designed for survival.

The July / August issue of Energy Times featured an «Omnivore versus Vegan» debate designed to help readers decide whether Mother Nature designed us as to eat animal products or whether we should consider veganism «our next big evolutionary leap.»

from a evolutionary point of view, milk wasnt designed to be consumed by adults but we adapted to be able to tolerate milk.

Through creative and carefully designed sequencing, Debbie offers space for students of all levels to gently come to their evolutionary edge with grace and joy while cultivating strength and humility.

Progress only comes if the way of eating between fasts gradually adapts to the genuine developing taste of a practicing individual.After the true fast (do not know about IF, i have never tried that) of eating nothing but water my taste sharpenes a lot and does what it is evolutionary designed to do — it leads me to eat what I truly need Reading about nutrition helps with inventiveness and imagination.