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In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.

But if you look on the left side, some of the evolutionary pathway outlined here to the octopus, they have both converged, if you will, to complex behaviors and some form of intelligence.

Now, we don't know the answer, but if it turns out to be yes, then we have a different evolutionary pathway to create intelligence on planet Earth, and one might think that the artificial intelligence community might be interested in those mechanisms.

If there's one thing I want you to remember from my talk today, it's this: your anger exists in you as an emotion because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, with an evolutionary advantage.

DG: Well, you know, the people who are most skeptical about leaping to evolutionary explanations for everything are the evolutionary psychologists themselves.

My guess is that there's nothing quite that specific in our evolutionary past.

It's stunningly beautiful, but it's also stunning to think about the amount of light that we're enveloping the Earth on, and, at the time of day when, for pretty much all of our evolutionary history, the Earth has been dark.

So, for pretty much all of our history, except for a blink of an eye, in our evolutionary history, nobody had a way of hopping from one continent to the other in a matter of hours.

And so one final thing I want to tell you is well, first I want you to think again for a moment about our evolutionary history.

They're only between 13 and 14,000 feet, but if you go in the warm part of the year, it's O.K. Now, I tried to suture together a dinosaur evolutionary history so that we can try to understand some basic patterns of evolution.

You get divided, and a continent's division corresponds to a fork in the evolutionary tree, or you're crafty, and you manage to escape from one to the other and erase that division, or you're living peacefully on each side, and on one side you just go extinct, and you survive on the other side and create a difference.

I mean, is there anything that is not visualizing what can't be seen, in terms of discovering this dinosaur bone from a small piece of it that's out there, or seeing the distortion that we try to see as evolutionary distortion in one animal to another?

They recently sequenced Pinot Noir, and it also has about 30,000 genes, so the number of genes you have may not necessarily represent the complexity or the evolutionary order of any particular species.

Let's face it: if we deny evolutionary continuity, we are really missing out on embracing part of ourselves.

I failed so spectacularly that I'm now an evolutionary biologist.

Over the past few years, there's been a fascinating convergence of findings in several different sciences, in psychology and anthropology and neuroscience and evolutionary biology, and they all tell us something pretty amazing: that human beings have got this massive capacity for altruism.

We are not the determined product of billions of years of evolutionary plotting and planning.

Its theories and models are being developed and refined in universities around the world building on some of the best new research in economics, complexity theory, evolutionary theory, psychology, anthropology and other disciplines.

So, market capitalism is an evolutionary system in which prosperity emerges through a positive feedback loop between increasing amounts of innovation and increasing amounts of consumer demand.

So what in our evolutionary past led to this manicured adaptation, and what can nails do that their sharper cousins can’t?

But despite the gulf of time between their emergence, these adaptations are both part of the same evolutionary story.

What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future.

We're sort of circumventing evolutionary programs that guide our behavior.

Evolutionary biologists think that as the climate got drier and grasslands popped up, our tail-bearing ancestors left the trees and started walking on land.

Human beings are the result of millions of years of trial, error, and random chance— and we’re full of evolutionary relics to remind us of that.

Something we don't have an evolutionary reason to do, we don't have a specialized part of the brain for, and we don't do that many hours of the day.

So now you have an evolutionary excuse.

But there are ways in which our evolutionary history can really trip us up.

If you ask evolutionary biologists when did humans become humans, some of them will say that, well, at some point we started standing on our feet, became biped and became the masters of our environment.

When we look at the so-called evolutionary tree, we're up on the upper right-hand corner with the animals.

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