Sentences with phrase «recently in human evolution»

Conversely, the propensity to punish non-cooperative behaviour, observable in some contemporary societies, was probably acquired relatively recently in human evolution» (Grimalda).

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And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.
We humans have appeared relatively recently in evolution, and our religious habits have evolved along with us.
The editors of Discover wondered recently how the father of evolution would view the arguments bubbling up in the field of human origins, so we asked contributing editor Joseph D'Agnese what Charles Darwin might have said if he were around today:
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., recently unveiled the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, the museum's new permanent exhibition on human evoluHuman Origins, the museum's new permanent exhibition on human evoluhuman evolution.
How we do in school is less tied to our genes than has recently been suggested, which may be just as well as infertility treatments are removing one element of human evolution.
Stony Brook University professor John J. Shea recently published a new work through Cambridge University Press entitled Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates.
A recently published study in the «Journal of Human Evolution» now announced a new «sensational discovery» from the Thuringian fossil site.
Understanding cats» place in history and human evolution reveals how very recently domestic cats came indoors and how millions of this species — feral cats — continue to live healthy lives outdoors today, as all domestic cats are biologically adapted to do.
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