Sentences with phrase «shaped by natural selection»

Specifically, I seek to understand how life - history traits are shaped by natural selection and also how this proceeds differently in different sexes.

But if you strip away all the paraphernalia then really what culture is about at its core is about innovations that are not encoded in the genome somehow and are passed on, not by genetic transmission, and are not sort of shaped by natural selection, which is the normal stuff of evolution; but it is transmitted socially through social learning.

Brains, shaped by natural selection, minimize energy consumption at all costs.

Evolutionary biology reminds us that we are animals, shaped by natural selection not for discovering deep truths of nature but for breeding.

Building on this idea, some of his colleagues argued that language is an adaptation shaped by natural selection, just like eyes and wings.

The new study «adds fuel to an active debate» about the role of accessory genes, says Alan McNally, a microbiologist at the University of Birmingham in England — whether or not the collections of genetic add - ons that bacteria maintain are shaped by natural selection, the process that fuels evolution.

No one knows for sure why they began to look more human, but unlike the bodies of other species, which are shaped by natural selection, ours may have been sculpted by our own ingenuity.

We are just rather clever apes with a brain shaped by natural selection to see us through this messy world.

In other words, human nature is to some extent innate and shaped by natural selection.

Not exact matches

In a crypto - eugenic mood Bailey would shape future society «by selection of the folk in a natural process, to eliminate the unresponsive.»

What the process paradigm generalizes as the principle that «the many become one, and are increased by one,» Kauffman conceptualizes as spontaneous exhibitions of new degrees of order that may play as fundamental a role in shaping evolution as does the Darwinian process of natural selection.

The proposed «two - speed» mode of venom evolution highlights the fascinating evolutionary dynamics of this complex biochemical cocktail, by showing for the first time the significant roles played by different forces of natural selection in shaping animal venoms.

But just as living organisms are shaped from the bottom up by natural selection, the economy is molded from the bottom up by the invisible hand.

Mr Esquerre said not all evolution was driven by natural selection, but examples such as pythons and boas reinforce its importance in shaping biological diversity.

Instead, scaling relationships are shaped by strong natural selection.

Human cognition is more than a legacy of our Paleolithic past Evolutionary psychology has typically tried to identify the piece parts of human cognition shaped by the rigors of natural selection.

In large organisms with relatively small population sizes, such as humans, only in the order of 1 % of the genomic information is shaped by the environment via natural selection.

Birds» beaks evolving characteristic shapes to eat different food is a classic example of evolution by natural selection.

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The theory of memetics shows how creating a mode of natural selection for memes in the sea of uncontrolled digital information via Arsenal Gear would allow the Patriots to shape public discourse by easily replacing radical or opposing ideas with those that the group finds more convenient for maintaining their power.