Sentences with phrase «shaped human biology»

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.

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Combining the tools of psychology, evolutionary biology and archaeology, scientists have found compelling evidence for the co-evolution of early Stone Age slaughtering tools and our ability to communicate and teach, shedding new light on the power of human culture to shape evolution.

We're so intertwined with microbes that biology writer Ed Yong describes himself as «trillions of microbes in a human - shaped sack.»

Science journalist Shah reaches beyond biology to examine how malaria has shaped human history and how cultural biases have impeded its eradication.

There's no doubt in my mind that countless human lives have gone down the drain due to mainstream medicine's excessive use of drugs and neglection of the role the microbes that colonize our bodies play in shaping our biology and health.

Sex differences in human adipose tissues — the biology of pear shape.

IN A NUTSHELL: Lo uses research in evolutionary biology, psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence to explain how human behaviour shapes the markets, leading to swings between stability and instability, profit and loss, innovation and regulation.

Inspired by a deep appreciation for botany, mycology, and biology — fields that explore parts of the physical world that are often hidden from humans» perception but shape our experiences in ways both subtle and profound — Ronay seeks to create «something that looks as if it's grown, that these aren't objects that were necessarily made by a human, but that they've grown themselves.»