Sentences with phrase «social complexity»

A new study offers insights into the genetic changes that accompany the evolution of social complexity in bees, including honey bees.

It affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions to achieve positive results.

In other words, social complexity leads to cognitive complexity.

The study was held in conditions that are increasingly controversial as evidence of whale intelligence and social complexity grows: the whales and dolphins were captive.

The researchers found that these different features showed strong statistical relationships, meaning that variation in societies across space and time could be captured by a single measure of social complexity.

It affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions that achieve positive results.

«Gene regulation underlies the evolution of social complexity in bees.»

Similarly, there was an increase in DNA methylation as social complexity increased, which also means enhanced gene regulatory capacity, he said.

The research conducted by Garcia and colleagues also found a relationship between social complexity and kissing: The more socially complex and stratified a society is, the higher the frequency of romantic kissing.

The second insight involved changes in the evolution of gene regulation: As social complexity increased, so did the speed of changes to parts of the genome involved in regulating gene activity, located in the promoters of the genes, the researchers report.

Starting from the same premises concerning social complexity and cultural differentiation, Luhmann nevertheless is led along a different route by his emphasis on the paradoxical nature of social relations.

In any event, though religious heterogeneity may very well appear alongside or as part of general social complexity, I expect a plurality of meaning systems or «sacred canopies» will inhibit development of those social interactions that typically cross religious lines, that is, secular or socioeconomic activities.

«Researchers have long debated whether social complexity can be meaningfully compared across different parts of the world.

Now, researchers say that social complexity also underlies the braininess of parrots, which have big brains relative to their body size.

«It appears from these results that gene networks get more complex as social life gets more complex, with network complexity driving social complexity,» Robinson said.

The phrase is a fine combination of old - fashioned sexism and convenient biology - speak which, by reducing human individuals to a biological organism, «man», sweeps away social complexities and confines debate to the simplicities of what we often call «nature».

Consequently, the Missouri team used population density as a proxy for social complexity, reasoning that when more people are concentrated in a geographic region, trade springs up between groups, there is greater division of labor, the gathering of food becomes more efficient, and interactions among individuals become richer and more varied.

In my research I employ an ecological and historical perspective to study social complexity, urbanism, and agriculture in Mesoamerica.

Barrett, L., Henzi, P. & Rendall, D. Social brains, simple minds: does social complexity really require cognitive complexity?

Dr. Sabloff, an anthropologist, is a participant in the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Modeling Social Complexity.

The central trio including, Jeremy Allen White, Logan Huffman, and Mackenzie Davis (who are all still relatively new to the industry) deliver a rich and compelling palate of pulpy realism that is dosed in teenage social complexities.

I also learned about many of the political and social complexities surrounding the fracking industry in Pennsylvania, including conflicts between economic and community interests.

Working within a community health setting, I am especially keen to see an equity lens applied to Medicare item numbers and rebates, taking into account social complexity and providing funding for the required level of support and intervention required.

Children born to mothers who experience social complexity (e.g. substance misuse, intimate partner violence, mental ill health, a history of maltreatment) are at increased risk for a range of adverse outcomes at birth and during development.

Emotional intelligence is that «something» in each of us that is a bit intangible; it affects how we manage behavior, navigate social complexities, and make personal decisions that achieve positive results.

It has been suggested that exclusive control over stone quarries used to manufacture the drills needed in bead production could have played a role in the development of social complexity in Chumash society.

Rather than searching for statistical associations between social complexity and religious beliefs, researchers need ways to untangle cause and effect, Watts says.

With excavations also reopening in Afghanistan, archaeologists are poised to gain insights into how cities started, the origins of social complexity, the rise of the state, the development of the first writing systems, and how trade systems worked.

A person's level of EQ affects how he or she manages behavior, navigates social complexities and makes personal decisions that achieve positive results.

While the curriculum of American seminaries may have been dominated by a «clerical paradigm,» the real life of these institutions has shifted toward an ethos of self - discovery in which many students» are equally bored by theological subtlety and social complexity.

By insisting on the moral value of increasing natural and social complexity, he overlooks a historical trend which has been identified by many, most notably Reinhold Niebuhr: the more organized and highly structured the group or state, the greater is its hypocrisy and abuse» of power.

Ed's current and recent research projects include: the Scottish independence referendum and the British voter: an enhancement to the British Election Study Internet Panel; The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity; How different are direct mail and telephoning?

Anthropologist Hervey Peoples at the University of Cambridge, UK, says that there is good evidence that, even if MHGs do not drive political and social complexity, they can affect and stabilize it.

The Levant (i.e. modern - day Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria) has long been recognised as an important region associated with changes in social complexity and shifts in subsistence economy that pre-empted the shift to agriculture and farming.

«It tells us a lot about their social complexity, their technology,» Nowell says.

Their similarities to humans in cognitive capacity, social complexity and neuroanatomy make them essential models for understanding the brain — yet these same attributes also single them out for special protection.

A third major finding was that increases in social complexity were accompanied by a slowing, or «relaxation,» of changes in the genome associated with natural selection.

By sequencing and comparing the genomes of ten bee species that vary in social complexity, the researchers made three important discoveries.

New work on primates bolsters the idea that diet — rather than social complexity — was key to evolution of our big brains, says chimp expert Richard Wrangham

Either way, it's interesting that this kind of social complexity can exist in such small brains, says Joan Strassmann, a social evolution researcher at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

While the study sample was small and a larger trial is needed, the real - life application of this training program is especially important for adolescents who are at a very challenging life - stage when they face major academic and social complexities.

Neither did any other measure of social complexity, such as group size.

The show explains many aspects of whales, from their evolution from small land animals 50 million years ago, to the ability of some of them to use echolocation, as well as their cultural and social complexities.

Yet the settlement, which endured for nearly a millennium, had attained an astonishing degree of social complexity.

Scholars have been hotly debating the origins and spread of metallurgy for decades, mainly due to the relationship this technology had with the rise of social complexity and economy of the world's first civilisations in the Near East.

The Teop people were selected to test Grimalda's theories on human cooperation for the small size of their communities (populations of around 50 inhabitants) and low levels of social complexity, though also because they present very different characteristics to those found in Western societies: they are horticulturists and gatherers; they use rudimentary tools to grow their food; they have no mechanised industry; and retribution for manual labour is infrequent.