Sentences with phrase «suggested by evolution»
This is not at all what is suggested by evolution.
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I suggest you read «Why Evolution is True» by Jerry Coyne.
Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.
It suggests that Professor Ayala accepts the idea of evolution by natural chance.
The hypothesis of a definitive halt in terrestrial evolution is, to my mind, suggested less by the apparently unchanging nature of present forms than by a certain general aspect of the world coinciding with this appearance of cessation.
C14 dating also suggests the the universe and Earth are relatively young campared to time lines given by evolution.
First, Darwin says that the unmistakable similarity of fossil species to living species in any one district (living species were clearly different from the fossil species, yet also clearly related) strongly suggested evolution by descent.
According to evolution things are made by themselves things just happen by chance to say that evolution knew than humans would need to eat to survive suggests that something would have to know this are they considering evolution is a thinking force that knows what a creature needs to do to adapt ti certain things or that evolution knew that spiders needed to make webs to catch flies?
Darwinian evolution suggests that cancer cells result from random mutations, surviving the attacks by the body's antibodies, etc..
We do not deny or circumscribe the Creator, because we hold he has created the self - acting originating human mind, which has almost a creative gift; much less then do we deny or circumscribe His power, if we hold that He gave matter such laws as by their blind instrumentality moulded and constructed through innumerable ages the world as we see it... Mr Darwin's theory need not then be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill... At first sight I do not see that «the accidental evolution or organic beings» is inconsistent with divine design - It is accidental to us, not to God.»
It does not even suggest that the basic mechanisms of Darwinian evolution are flawed, that is variation, selection and adaptation remain well - supported, supplemented by still further supporting evidence of evolution from population genetics and molecular biology.
Whitehead suggests, for example, that «error is... the schoolmaster by whose agency there is upward evolution» (PR 168/256).
Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.
Polls such as the 2009 U.S. Religious and Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, have suggested that less than half of all Americans accept the scientific theory of evolution.
In the context of Darwin's theories of evolution, the bones were re-examined by anatomist William King, who promptly named them Homo neanderthalensis, a name that provocatively (and incorrectly) suggested they were the missing link between apes and humans.
They also suggest that sexual dimorphism — the physical distinction between genders, with females typically smaller in mammals — was more prevalent in early hominin species but then steadily ironed out by evolution.
Education experts suggest that in some cultural contexts one way to encourage acceptance of evolution is by not shunning religious beliefs
Seeking one mechanism to explain the induction of cancer by many different agents, Huebner and Todaro had suggested that retrovirus oncogenes are a part of the genetic baggage of all cells, perhaps acquired through viral infection early in evolution.
The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.
This suggested that at least some of the pathways that the drug acts on to eliminate anxiety in mammals have been preserved by evolution.
The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.
A study of the fossil, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, suggests that following the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana in the middle of the Cretaceous period, a distinct dinosaur fauna evolved in Africa.
When they measured the concentrations in the same area in chimp brains, the team found that the differences between chimps and normal humans were much greater for those nine than for the 12 metabolites not implicated in schizophrenia, suggesting that energy pathways implicated in schizophrenia were also altered by human evolution, the team reports this week in Genome Biology.
«The existence of such complex social classifications in baboons, a species without language, suggests that the social pressures imposed by life in complex groups may have been one factor leading to the evolution of sophisticated cognition and language in our pre-human ancestors.»
A new study of cactus evolution suggests that the plant's water - saving strategies might have come first, followed only later by dramatic changes in the plant's anatomy.
The paper, published today in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution by a team of 40 scientists, policy - makers and on - the - ground practitioners, suggests alternative and complementary approaches that use indicators grounded in the values of a particular community.
The discovery of genetic mechanisms common to all three of these species, which diverged on the evolutionary tree about 420 million years ago, suggests that these mechanisms aren't specific to individual species, but have been conserved by nature through evolution.
Glen Hood, a Ph.D. student at Notre Dame and lead author of the paper, said, «Our study has impacted our understanding of evolution by suggesting that change in individual lineages can reverberate through different trophic levels of an ecosystem and increase community - level biodiversity.»
The results suggest that structural balance may play a role in the evolution of social structures by selecting against specific configurations.
That surprisingly low number suggested the evolution of new species was accompanied by rapid turnover of the venom genes, with old genes being abandoned and new ones with novel venom functions suddenly arising.
A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution led by a George Washington University professor suggests that the earliest members of the Homo genus (which includes our species, Homo sapiens) may not have been larger than earlier hominin species.
This suggests that brain sleep dates back at least to the evolution of the amniotes, that is, to the beginning of the colonization of terrestrial landmass by vertebrate animals.
A new conceptual evolutionary model first proposed in 2015 in bioRXiv and then published this year in the journal Biologia by Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, associate professor of ecology and biodiversity at Tomsk State University (Russia), reviewed the debated mechanism of speciation, suggesting that competition and a struggle for the existence are not the main drivers of evolution.
Thomas Holstein states that the protozoans are characterised by a wide variety of different ballistic organelles, suggesting an «arms race» at this early stage of evolution.
This research, by contrast, suggests that rapid evolution of a complex social behavior like pair bonding can occur by changing the expression of just one gene, he says.
Furthermore, recent studies suggest that this network is already involved in identifying numbers by young children who are not yet at school, and that it is very ancient in evolution, as it is present when macaque monkeys recognise physical objects.
The authors suggest that cannibalism by females may therefore act to promote the evolution of mate choice by males.
Because the ASHCEs in genes such as Sim1 were highly conserved and therefore largely unchanged by evolution since the dinosaur era, this suggests CREs such as ASHCEs were vital in developing bird - specific traits and may have driven the transition of dinosaurs to birds.
Tappert now suggests to reconsider these theories: «We do not want to negate the influence of oxygen for the evolution of life in general with our study, but the gigantism of dinosaurs can not be explained by those theories.»
Since the theory was first suggested more than 55 years ago, huge advances have been made in the study of human evolution and our story is much more interesting and complicated than suggested by the catch - all aquatic ape hypothesis.
Gould was among the most vocal in suggesting that other factors — such as historical contingency and architectural constraint — intervene in the possible outcome of evolution by natural selection.
This evolution is by no means complete, and growing evidence suggests that its progression is driving significant developments in cell therapy bioprocessing — notably, convergence.
Observation by the MAVEN spacecraft of the upper Mars atmosphere during a CME showed an enhancement in the escape rate of ions to space during the event, suggesting that ion loss during solar events in early Mars history may have been a major contributor to the long - term evolution of the Mars atmosphere (Jakosky et al. 2015).
In all 7 cases, the results suggest a linear model of clonal evolution, in which progression from MDS to sAML was characterized by persistence of a single founder clone (defined by ~ 200 - 700 mutations) and the outgrowth of at least one new subclone which contained dozens or hundreds of additional mutations.
The comparison of the two datasets suggests rapid evolution of the inner regions of the disk, potentially driven by the interaction with the close - in M - dwarf companion, around which no polarimetric signal is detected.
The nearly equal frequency of conflicting gene trees suggests that speciation of rorqual evolution occurred under gene flow, which is best depicted by evolutionary networks.
... if development of intelligence is partially driven by cooling episodes, as suggested by Schwartzman & Middendorf (2000), then on BD planets cognitive evolution may be expected to contain a stronger continuous component than on Earth.
The study, led by McGill University evolutionary biologist Ben Haller in collaboration with IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program Leader Ulf Dieckmann and IIASA researcher Rupert Mazzucco, suggests that a varied environment spurs the evolution of new species and promotes biodiversity by creating places of refuge — «refugia» — for new organisms tEvolution and Ecology Program Leader Ulf Dieckmann and IIASA researcher Rupert Mazzucco, suggests that a varied environment spurs the evolution of new species and promotes biodiversity by creating places of refuge — «refugia» — for new organisms tevolution of new species and promotes biodiversity by creating places of refuge — «refugia» — for new organisms to evolve.
Simple biogeochemical flux modeling suggests that, if the Archean Earth was kept warm by a methane greenhouse, then the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis could have triggered a Snowball Earth event on a time scale as short as about a million years (Kopp et al., 2005).
The same sequence of DNA specifying that corkscrew shape has been exactly preserved by evolution in many vertebrate animals suggesting it has an important biological function.