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Still, where are the social sciences in the vast conversation over "human nature" that has been prompted by recent advances in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral genetics, and evolutionary psychology?
Thus, evolutionary psychologists infer what makes us who we are from the remains of our Stone Age ancestors (including their DNA), whereas humanists focus on artifacts of a more recent and literate age.
So we live in a world of evolutionary state disorder.
So it is no surprise that these advances are providing valuable insights into the field of evolutionary biology as well, including evidence supporting the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution that I developed in 1973.
As is typical in science, each new discovery in evolutionary biology raises as many questions as it answers.
Evolutionary changes, including morphological ones, were thought to be the result of the accumulation and distribution of beneficial mutations, and the genetic makeup of populations was believed to be close to homogeneous, with only a few rare, random mutations creating differences between one individual and another.
As it became possible to analyze an individual’s genetic makeup, it become apparent that there was much more variation within populations than prevailing evolutionary theory predicted.
Kimura examined the rate of evolutionary change of proteins and proposed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
His theory – which held that evolutionary changes at the molecular level are caused not by natural selection, but by random genetic drift – provided a good explanation for the genetic variation that researchers had discovered.
My own work showed that borderline mutations, those with very small positive or negative effects, could be very important in driving evolutionary changes.
Among the most interesting challenges in evolutionary biology is the attempt to identify the molecular mechanisms of gene expression that drive morphological evolution.
The deeper we dive into what we once thought were straight-forward evolutionary processes, the more wondrous and complex they are revealed to be.
The technological revolution wrought by recombinant DNA was not remotely the sort of “inexorable, evolutionary progress” envisioned by Ridley.
All living organisms appear as mosaics of genetic tissue, or chimeras, suggesting that no two genes have the same evolutionary history.
So, in evolutionary terms, the fear system of the brain is very old.
Yet lessons learned in dealing with exotic species, combined with recent mathematical models of the evolutionary dynamics of tumors, indicate that eradicating most cancers may be impossible.
Under the banner of “integrated pest management,” hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate themThe ability of tumor cells to adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, including toxic chemicals, is similar to the evolutionary capacities demonstrated by crop pests and other invasive species.
Indeed, the parallels between cancerous cells and invasive species suggest that the principles for successful cancer therapy might be found not in the magic bullets of microbiology but in the evolutionary dynamics of applied ecology.
They will need to understand the evolutionary dynamics of resistant populations, and design strategies to suppress or exploit the adapted characteristics.
But it may be time to temper our quest for magic bullets and recognize the cold reality of Darwin’s evolutionary dynamics.
Some changes will be evolutionary, taking many years to manifest themselves; others will be sudden and more disruptive.
For our ancestors, whose lives were fraught with danger, pain conferred an evolutionary advantage, signaling the need to separate oneself from its immediate source.
Our unique psychological capacities allow us to learn from one another over generations, facilitating a cumulative cultural evolutionary process that produces increasingly complex and sophisticated technologies, languages, bodies of knowledge, conceptual toolkits, and adaptive heuristics.
This means that the rate of innovation will depend, at least in part, on the size and interconnectedness of the pool of minds contributing to the cultural evolutionary process.
Evolutionary ideas are born of religion.
Morocco’s evolutionary approach to improving the country’s well-being – quietly and resolutely building on the political, economic, and social reforms launched more than a decade ago – is backed by an overwhelming majority of citizens.
We intended fundamental changes, but we sought to introduce them in an evolutionary, peaceful way.
Here, two basic approaches to the problem, a revolutionary one and an evolutionary one, were made.
The evolutionary won out in West Europe, the revolutionary was adopted by the Soviet Union, under conditions that were very unfavorable to the idea that a large industrial proletariat would support the revolution.
Evolutionary psychologists and even some neuroscientists say that is nonsense.
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