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Another thing all these molecules are telling us that, apparently, bioluminescence has evolved at least 40 times, maybe as many as 50 separate times in evolutionary history, which is a clear indication of how spectacularly important this trait is for survival.
My work has evolved from being concerned mainly with war to a focus on critical social issues as well.
And, interestingly, complexity is very highly evolved.
Well, the striking patterns of human social networks, their ubiquity and their apparent purpose beg questions about whether we evolved to have human social networks in the first place, and whether we evolved to form networks with a particular structure.
We have evolved to have our own pond.
That's how we evolved.
But now that's evolved into something else.
And so I think that we evolved ... there was a natural selection for the propensity for our belief engines, our pattern-seeking brain processes, to always find meaningful patterns and infuse them with these sort of predatory or intentional agencies that I'll come back to.
Faces are easy to see because we have an additional evolved facial recognition software in our temporal lobes.
And what marine mammals have evolved over the last tens of millions of years is ways to depend on sound to both explore their world and also to stay in touch with one another.
It actually turns out, though, even though we've only known of long-range propagation for a few decades, the whales clearly have evolved, over tens of millions of years, a way to exploit this amazing property of the ocean.
They've evolved over tens of millions of years to take advantage of this.
The flat horizon that we've evolved with has been a metaphor for the infinite: unbounded resources and unlimited capacity for disposal of waste.
So you have living dinosaurs and space aliens, animals that evolved in zero gravity in harsh conditions.
They have evolved over millennia.
Now, what that means is that all of the organisms that live in the sea have evolved in this chemostatted ocean, with CO2 levels lower than they are today.
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness.
We evolved as a species near the equator, and so we're very well-equipped to deal with 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
As we evolved from our ape-like ancestors on the African savanna, what distinguished us was our larger brains.
Because they evolved for the same reason: to survive predation.
As an evolutionary biologist, I'd say this: our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude, of size and speed which our bodies operate at.
We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.
We are evolved denizens of Middle World, and that limits what we are capable of imagining.
If we'd evolved in a vacuum, we would expect them to hit the ground simultaneously.
But we find real matter comforting only because we've evolved to survive in Middle World, where matter is a useful fiction.
If a neutrino had a brain, which it evolved in neutrino-sized ancestors, it would say that rocks really do consist of empty space.
We have brains that evolved in medium-sized ancestors which couldn't walk through rocks.
We are evolved to second-guess the behavior of others by becoming brilliant, intuitive psychologists.
And the point is really that we evolved to be satisfied by the world in particular ways.
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.
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