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So in order to ask evolutionary questions, we need to know about reproductive success.
They've been shaped by two powerful evolutionary forces: natural selection, the struggle for survival, and sexual selection, the struggle for reproductive opportunity.
This evolutionary flaw, which was discovered by my colleague Tom Eisner, has driven these fireflies to take their bright lights out into the night with treacherous intent.
Think about it: for most of human's evolutionary history, what's made bears impressive to us has been their complete independence from us.
Most chemists are not experts in evolutionary theory.
It exists for very sensible evolutionary reasons.
The genius of capitalism is that it is an evolutionary solution-finding system.
And I discovered that while I'd been busy playing business games, there'd been this incredible revolution in so many areas of interest: cosmology to psychology to evolutionary psychology to anthropology to ... all this stuff had changed.
Or you can view it as an evolutionary psychology kind of thing: did our genes invent this as a kind of trick to get us to behave in certain ways?
So this evolutionary foil safeguards the plant against these rather cute animals, and protects it and of course ensures its survival.
Closing the gap has become a passion for me, and I'm doing this through programs like Darwin on Rounds at UCLA, where we're bringing animal experts and evolutionary biologists and embedding them on our medical teams with our interns and our residents.
In biology, the notions of symbiosis, group selection, evolutionary psychology are contested, to be sure.
Everybody underestimates how often they laugh, and you're doing something, when you laugh with people, that's actually letting you access a really ancient evolutionary system that mammals have evolved to make and maintain social bonds, and clearly to regulate emotions, to make ourselves feel better.
Now, throughout history, men practically had a license to cheat with little consequence, and supported by a host of biological and evolutionary theories that justified their need to roam, so the double standard is as old as adultery itself.
Here's what the future may begin to look like with changing, now, the evolutionary tree, speeding up evolution with synthetic bacteria, Archaea and, eventually, eukaryotes.
Well, the standard argument given is usually an evolutionary one.
Is this the right interpretation of evolutionary theory?
So, in my lab, we have run hundreds of thousands of evolutionary game simulations with lots of different randomly chosen worlds and organisms that compete for resources in those worlds.
The evolutionary game simulations that I showed were specifically about perception, and they do show that our perceptions have been shaped not to show us reality as it is, but that does not mean the same thing about our logic or mathematics.
An evolutionary biologist at Purdue University named William Muir studied chickens.
There's an evolutionary reason for this.
Cohorts of the dinosaurs, sea turtles have survived through the challenges of eons, existing still today, where many others have ended their evolutionary run.
For one thing, evolutionary fitness is just a matter of how well-suited they are to their current environment.
Anything that lets more copies of the gene pass on to the next generation will serve its purpose, except evolutionary purpose.
There are evolutionary arguments regarding every human mating behavior, from how we display ourselves to potential mates, to how we treat each other in relationships, to how we raise kids.
Scientists aren't sure, but they think there's an evolutionary explanation.
Fast moving vehicles and video recordings have only existed in the last couple of centuries, a blink in evolutionary time.
The idea of so much of our attraction being influenced by chemicals and evolutionary biology may seem cold and scientific rather than romantic, but the next time you see someone you like, try to appreciate how your entire body is playing matchmaker to decide if that beautiful stranger is right for you.
Thinking about something as simple as body symmetry can help us dig far into our evolutionary past and understand where we, as a species, have come from.
Does sadness have value on a more basic, tangible, maybe even evolutionary level?
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