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Now, keeping these ideas firmly in mind, we can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction.
A third of all the fruits that we eat are all a result of insects taking care of the reproduction of plants.
And a pig disease, a pig virus, and a human virus can both proliferate, and because of their kind of reproduction, they can combine and produce a new virus.
Sexual reproduction enters the picture.
And very importantly, with the introduction of sexual reproduction that passes on the genome, the rest of the body becomes expendable.
In fact, you could say that the inevitability of the death of our bodies enters in evolutionary time at the same moment as sexual reproduction.
Because I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
And my favorite example of that occurred beginning in 1976, when it was discovered that the bacteria causing Legionnaires disease had always been present in natural waters, but it was the precise temperature of the water in heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems that raised the right temperature for the maximum reproduction of Legionella bacillus.
DW: No, no, actually I think they're all important to drive the right movement behavior to get reproduction in the end.
Most spiders use copious amounts of silk, and silk is essential to their survival and reproduction.
Spiders use silk for many purposes, including the trailing safety dragline, wrapping eggs for reproduction, protective retreats and catching prey.
Because I think one of the reasons we have this huge discomfort talking about contraception is this lingering concern that if we separate sex from reproduction, we're going to promote promiscuity.
Human time, industrial time, tested against the time of the tides, in which these memories of a particular body, that could be any body, multiplied as in the time of mechanical reproduction, many times, placed over three square miles, a mile out to sea, disappearing, in different conditions of day and night.
And I've also come to think that it's one of three basically different brain systems that evolved from mating and reproduction.
Everyone would carry it around and present it like a business card to verify if seduction can progress to reproduction.
Now invariably, you're probably thinking about what belongs to our own species, these very familiar structures, but the diversity that we see in sexual structures in the animal kingdom that has evolved in response to the multitude of factors surrounding reproduction is pretty mind-blowing.
So with all of this diversity in structure, one might think, then, that penises are fitting neatly into vaginas all over the place for the purposes of successful reproduction.
Women's health became synonymous with reproduction: breasts, ovaries, uterus, pregnancy.
So thanks to these amazing devices, we have been able to gather precious information about tapir reproduction and social organization which are very important pieces of the puzzle when you're trying to develop those conservation strategies.
So we're starting to figure out the secrets to this process, the secrets of coral reproduction and how we might help them.
Secondly, survival is not how evolution occurs, reproduction is.
So, a gene that makes an animal altruistically sacrifice itself to help the survival and future reproduction of its siblings or cousins, can become more widespread than one that is solely concerned with self-preservation.
When you think of gossip, you think: rapid reproduction, destruction.
Cells use this energy for everything from repair to growth to reproduction.
Well, instead of organisms, we can start with an initial population of musical phrases, and a basic algorithm that mimics reproduction and random mutations by switching some parts, combining others, and replacing random notes.
The name monotreme means one hole referring to the single orifice they use for reproduction, excretion, and egg-laying.
Superficially, it makes sense because evolution works via reproduction.
And since genitalia are an animal's tools for reproduction, any improvement there will have immediate effect.
And I've long ago maintained that we've evolved three distinctly different brain systems for mating and reproduction: sex drive, feelings of intense romantic love and feelings of deep cosmic attachment to a long-term partner.
In the history of her interpretation, she went from object of ideal beauty and love to object of reproduction.
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