Sentences with phrase «selection in human evolution»

Conclusion: Although gluten is dangerous to our long term health and causes many chronic conditions, the forces of natural selection in human evolution has not improved human's impaired ability to consume foods with gluten because gluten tends not to affect human reproductive health in the short term.

Although gluten is dangerous to our long term health and causes many chronic conditions, the forces of natural selection in human evolution has not improved human's impaired ability to consume foods with gluten because gluten tends not to affect human reproductive health in the short term.

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No, Darwin's evolution by natural selection was most certainly not based upon merely seeing some bacteria change in a petri dish, and leaping directly to humans and apes having common ancestors.

The English honey bee was in fact Natural Selection and all Hitler did was attempt to replicate that evolution in humans; through intellegent design, such as the horse.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

One standout chapter discusses how scientists might unravel the evolution of language — linguists turn out to be almost as disputatious as paleontologists — and another speculates on how natural selection might have shaped human biology in modern times.

Subjects in the issue include the importance of natural selection, the sources of genetic variability, human evolution's past and future, pop evolutionary psychology, everyday applications of evolutionary theory, the science of the game Spore, and the ongoing threat to science education posed by creationist activists.

This and other evidence, say study authors Svante Pbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues, «strongly suggest that this gene has been the target of selection during recent human evolution.»

These breakthroughs could bring on an age of directed reproduction and evolution in which humans will bypass the incremental process of natural selection and set off on a high - speed genetic course of their own.

Conservation work to defeat the disease has including removing infected individuals from the population and new research in Evolutionary Applications explains how this gives us a unique opportunity to understand how human selection alters the evolution of cancerous cells.

«These in vitro selection studies are highly predictive of the antigenic evolution of H1N1 and H3N2 viruses in human populations.»

That well - intentioned interference had an unforeseen effect: It helped freeze the human body in its current form by easing the selection pressures that are evolution's scalpel.

As they report in this month's issue of Genome Research, the results were not consistent with balancing selection over the last half million years of human evolution but more likely due to as yet unknown selective pressures.

In 1859, Charles Darwin announced one of the greatest ideas ever to occur to a human mind: cumulative evolution by natural selection.

By scanning the entire human genome in search of genetic variations that may signal recent evolution, University of Chicago researchers found more than 700 genetic variants that may be targets of recent natural positive selection during the past 10,000 years of human evolution.

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February 27, 2002 Human and fly studies tally good and bad mutations, stress ongoing role of natural selection Natural selection plays a much larger role in molecular evolution than suspected.

Included in this bundle: Biodiversity and Human Interaction Biologists Cell Division Cellular Transport Chemistry of Life Ecology Evolution and Natural Selection Genetics Human Body General Terms Human Body Circulatory and Lymphatic Systems Human Body Digestive System Human Body Endocrine System Human Body Excretory System Human Body Integumentary System Human Body Muscular System Human Body Nervous System Human Body Respiratory System Human Body Skeletal System Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Plant Structure and Function Scientific Method Taxonomy The Cell Types of Science What is Life

The topics covered across the three years are: Biology Humans as organisms - health, diet, exercise, nervous system, disease and control Living processes - respiration, reproduction, transport in cells, Variation, evolution, inheritance & genetics - cloning, mutation and natural selection Ecosystems and habitats - food webs, interdependence and extinction

I hear from liberals who claim to believe in evolution but don't actually accept that a history of random variation and natural selection is of relevance in thinking about human behavior: as with Scopes, the only part of evolution they believe is that it contradicts the Bible.

How do you square that conclusion with the undeniable facts of evolution and natural selection which have no «agenda» other than the survival and reproduction of animals, and, in our case, of the Great Apes and humans?