"They really are reconstructing evolutionary history," Hopi Hoekstra, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, said of the new research.
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But perhaps more intriguing than the appendix's evolutionary pattern is a new problem the evolutionary tree presents: Why don't all mammals have an appendix?
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Lydia Pyne: It's uniquely human to feel very sure of our evolutionary success: that our evolutionary success must come at the expense of Neanderthals.
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The Edge of Existence program at the society looks at the evolutionary trees of animals that are endangered to determine which are most evolutionary distinctive.
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"The brain is a really expensive tissue that requires a lot of energy," writes Simon Neubauer, an evolutionary anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Complications in the evolutionary tree Luzonensis presents a bit of a mystery because, as with the discovery of Homo floresiensis, previously unknown hominin species complicate the evolutionary tree.
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"The people thinking about mitochondrial function were not evolutionary biologists, and evolutionary biologists weren't thinking about mitochondria, so no one was really putting these two ideas together," Burton said.
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But we do…we take risks and put ourselves out there, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective because without reproduction, we find ourselves at an evolutionary dead end.
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Other researchers began offering other images of evolutionary history, other "trees," some of them not very treelike, that took account of H.G.T. and represented those entanglements of evolutionary history.
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It was somewhat of an evolutionary mystery: Why were penises so different from one another if they had the same evolutionary purpose—to deliver sperm to a female's eggs?
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"If it matters from an evolutionary standpoint, the best question would be, does it increase fertility?" says Robert Martin, an evolutionary biologist and adjunct professor at the University of Chicago.
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Evolutionary mismatch Perhaps the main reason we are having to retune the settings on the appetite systems of crop plants is that they are held back by their evolutionary history.
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The human brain, and the IQ, language, personality, executive functions that come along with it, are all the products of evolutionary pressure that hominid ancestors faced during human evolutionary history.
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But in some instances, when environmental conditions are particularly severe and attritional, selectional processes accelerate the process—an evolutionary phenomenon dubbed "punctuated equilibrium" by the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould.
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Other voices in the conversation: Joan Roughgarden, evolutionary biologist, University of Hawai'i: Male, female: it goes back to size Curtis Lively, evolutionary biologist, Indiana University Bloomington: Sex protects populations from parasites
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In May, she began a PhD program in evolutionary genomics in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the Institute for Experimental Dermatology at the University of Lübeck.
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"It's uniquely human to feel very sure of our evolutionary success: that our evolutionary success must come at the expense of Neanderthals," Lydia Pyne, a historian and anthropologist, told me in 2016.
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"The elimination of forests basically left a long-term signature on the subsequent evolutionary history of birds," study author Daniel J. Field, an evolutionary paleobiologist at the University of Bath, told Gizmodo.
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Martin Nowak, who is today the director of Harvard University's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, began thinking about how population structures could potentially affect evolutionary outcomes in 2003 while studying the behavior of cancer.
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He didn't yet have a theory of the evolutionary process — the concept of natural selection would come later — but his sketch at least gave him an image of evolutionary history and its results.
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Pigs lost UCP1 at some point along the evolutionary chain.
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This contest sparks evolutionary development and innovation amongst the cells.
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Put another way, larger animals have a greater evolutionary advantage.
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It's a journal about building evolutionary trees of life, basically.
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MUNCHIES: What is the evolutionary relationship between chickens and dinosaurs?
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Convergence also will spark an evolutionary change in telecommunications networks.
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Dramatic as this scene was, it presented an evolutionary conundrum.
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The fungi's transition to ants set off an evolutionary explosion.
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And so the evolutionary trait of YouTube tabloids is granularity.
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That would make sense from an evolutionary point of view.
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Was there an evolutionary moment when the light switched on?
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In evolutionary terms, it seems, humans are now brainy enough.
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The genetic machinery of bioluminescence has applications beyond evolutionary biology.
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We know that the deservingness principle has an evolutionary origin.
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This evolutionary journey can be seen vividly throughout the film.
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This idea soon became gospel in the evolutionary biology world.
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I'm thrilled and proud about all of those evolutionary things.
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"Smartphone improvements are becoming ... evolutionary rather than revolutionary," Liew said.
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How did fire give an evolutionary advantage to early humans?
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This process flows from evolutionary imperatives to survive and reproduce.
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For women, the evolutionary path is harder to figure out.
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Truly, tardigrades are the most indefatigable troopers in evolutionary history.
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We also don't know how they fit into evolutionary history.
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LIF6 has a bizarre evolutionary history, as it turns out.
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After all, vegetables have no evolutionary imperative to be delicious.
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But it seems the defining evolutionary leap occurred this spring.
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Dennett's approach has been to look back into evolutionary history.
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This attitude toward artificial intelligence was evolutionary rather than creationist.
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The evolutionary algorithms spit out a wide range of forms.
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They require evolutionary changes in the shape of their bones.
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Wherever it appears, lactation is expensive and demands evolutionary justification.
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Another explanation for this fear comes out of evolutionary psychology.
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Many of these abilities likely stem from dogs' evolutionary history.
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Well, first of all, it's evolutionary psychology's typical modus operandi: notice something normative in your life, assume that it's universal, and then make up an evolutionary 'just so' story that 'explains' one's own normative construct.
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This suggests some kind of common evolutionary overlap between the species.
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So it is exciting that Edward O. Wilson, the Harvard evolutionary
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However, while it may have given us an evolutionary boost at
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Tiago Valente: I'm obsessed with evolutionary and adaptation theories and studies.
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The team decided to look into the evolutionary history behind this.
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This change put an evolutionary premium on communication and social intelligence.
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It's called epigenetics, and that too can cause huge evolutionary change.
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Is there an evolutionary reason why the fungus is bright yellow?
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That's where our cells may have performed a cunning evolutionary act.
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Though it's largely hypothetical for now, the evolutionary argument makes sense.
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There must therefore, evolutionary biologists believe, be equally huge compensating benefits.
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But Selden said these differences in evolutionary placement are pretty insignificant.
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We evolved in tight-knit communities, which is our evolutionary strength.
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At some point, it probably served an evolutionary role, Chapman adds.
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The shift I'm calling for would not be radical, just evolutionary.
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"Mast seeding is an evolutionary process," Hurteau tells the Albuquerque Journal.
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In 2018, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins put forth a similar idea.
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On paper, their mission is to research evolutionary and ecological engineering.
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The experiment, he believed, prefigured evolutionary changes to the human organism.
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He suspected this gender difference might even have an evolutionary basis.
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Eradicating them could restore ecosystems and let evolutionary processes resume unfettered.
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But for evolutionary ecologists, it should not come as a surprise.
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I think most evolutionary scientists would say our evolution has slowed.
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The northern white rhino's demise wasn't precipitated by their evolutionary undoing.
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Yet others regard the accelerating pace as only natural, even evolutionary.
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There may be good evolutionary reasons to have backup embryos available.
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They were an evolutionary step forward for early life on Earth.
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There was no evolutionary pressure for it to moderate its virulence.
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The results make sense from an evolutionary standpoint, Dr. Boisgontier says.
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CreditCreditGustavo Hormiga Spider webs present an intriguing challenge to evolutionary biologists.
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" —Laura Weingartner, evolutionary ecologist "End the PhD or drastically change it.
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WARNING: current pacification rate insufficient to keep pace with evolutionary modulation.
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On the evolutionary tree, they're closer together than horses and donkeys.
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So what is the evolutionary justification for the bowerbird's ostentatious display?
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Thankfully, climate scientists and evolutionary biologists generally aren't on the right.
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Yet so far, the changes are proving more evolutionary than revolutionary.
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There are perhaps evolutionary reasons why our brains work this way.
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And the evolutionary path to their size and color was intriguing.
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But today is not an evolutionary moment; it's a revolutionary one.
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Diamond hopes that evolutionary prediction will lead to smarter conservation choices.
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This is an evolutionary innovation — a whole new way to sing.
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Why, though, would the aye-aye jump through such evolutionary hoops?
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"The lesson is, change is evolutionary, not revolutionary," Ms. Lund said.
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It's an evolutionary miracle some of these animals are even alive.
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Car companies have followed the same evolutionary design path for decades.
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The murky evolutionary history of snakes is still full of secrets.
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I commented before a Darwinian change turns out in evolutionary biology.
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We may be on the cusp of a new evolutionary step.
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And part of the reason that it did was, you know, here I've been talking about what does an evolutionary woman look like, what does an evolutionary woman do in a situation like this, you know?
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"The genome is complex and our evolutionary history is complex," said Terence D. Capellini, one of the lead authors on the study and an associate professor in the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University.
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We'd expect nothing less from this remarkably brutal period in evolutionary history.
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The evolutionary outcome will be recognized by many aging Northern Hemisphere democracies.
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But as far as a closest evolutionary relative, the data's still inconclusive.
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That would take a major confounding factor out of their evolutionary story.
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The 'long term' effects, or evolutionary effects, will materialize soon after that.
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Jumps between species have driven most major evolutionary innovations in the viruses.
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It's an evolutionary survival mechanism that made us hyper-alert for threats.
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Every evolutionary story he had touched became more complex by the day.
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But this isn't what most of my colleagues in evolutionary biology think.
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Former AAAS president and evolutionary geneticist Francisco Ayala is another AAAS fellow.
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But intertidal zones offer an evolutionary way-station, courtesy of the Moon.
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This seems to make evolutionary sense—better sperm quality equals more offspring.
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Evolutionary determinists suggest that females are a resource that males fight over.
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This is one evolutionary cul-de-sac you don't want to cross.
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The answer is, of course, evolutionary adaptations to their ant-filled diets.
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The evolutionary nature of the band was clear by the second album.
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The effects on humans are much more social and economic than evolutionary.
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These observations make a lot of sense, particularly from an evolutionary perspective.
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Suzanne Sadedin, an evolutionary biologist, debunks your pop evo-psych on Quora.
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In reality, the story we get from some evolutionary psychologists is false.
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"Mechanization is going to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary," he told MUNCHIES.
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Perhaps the most intriguing and evolutionary feature is the mother's parental care.
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But there's also an evolutionary answer: cute animals make us feel good.
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Neoliberal ideology doesn't rely on evolutionary trappings, but keeps the core point.
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Warped Tour ended, and the rock music itself felt regenerative, not evolutionary.
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It is, however, a great summary of human history and evolutionary psychology.
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Oligopolistic markets should not be the evolutionary norm in this manufacturing sector.
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Narrator: That's Scott Solomon, an evolutionary biologist and professor at Rice University.
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Our tech industry has never been a fan of slow, evolutionary change.
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"So this mechanism has lost its evolutionary function, but it's still there."
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But Nathaniel Dominy, an evolutionary biologist at Dartmouth College, considers it unlikely.
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Two competing hypotheses explain the evolutionary chain of events, Dal Sasso said.
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"It unravels the evolutionary story that links humans to starfish and worms."
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Most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives all around us.
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And how is that gonna translate into evolutionary changes that we have?
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The research was published this week in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
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Savoy Motel is an evolutionary step for Novak: darker, slower, and funkier.
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There's a lot of evolutionary pressure for big jaws, it would seem.
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An evolutionary biologist, Dr. Lord is an old hand at wolf mothering.
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These and other discoveries of H.G.T. had an impact on evolutionary thinking.
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No individual ever knows the long-term evolutionary outcomes of discrete actions.
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From a zoological, evolutionary perspective, hearing is far more universal than vision.
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Richard, for his part, considers these outcomes from an evolutionary-biology perspective.
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A field that provides insight into the Trump phenomenon is evolutionary theory.
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The analysis also offered a window into the evolutionary history of tigers.
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The petroleum-driven automobile is an evolutionary novelty, barely 150 years old.
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Dr. Wolfe wanted to see if he could mimic that evolutionary process.
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Based on differences in the sharks' DNA, scientists created estimated evolutionary timelines.
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But that notion never really sat well with evolutionary biologist Michael Mina.
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Some of the evolutionary consequences of sexual desire may not be adaptive.
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His ideas helped create evolutionary biotechnology, a new branch of the field.
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Further up the evolutionary scale, we find Brian Dennehy, as Rick's father.
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On the most basic, evolutionary level, you are being a good parent.
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Only fossilized seeds had told the story of the family's evolutionary history.
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The latter event lines up with some significant shifts in evolutionary history.
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Clémence Poirotte, an evolutionary biologist at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier, France, wondered if our understanding of Toxoplasma might be limited by the paltry number of species in which its manipulations had been studied.
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The first, known as "evolutionary herding", involves selecting an initial specific treatment that forces cancer cells to adapt in a way that makes them highly susceptible to a second drug, or pushes them into an evolutionary dead end.
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Sankararaman said this extinct species seems to have diverged roughly 650,000 years ago from the evolutionary line that led to Homo sapiens, before the evolutionary split between the lineages that led to our species and to the Neanderthals.
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This seems like some sort of evolutionary artifact of aging: obtuseness to youth.
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But it's clear that these functions must come from some incremental evolutionary changes.
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But still, here's the evolutionary path of the notch from start to finish.
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She believes there is an evolutionary response to verbally and physically aggressive parenting.
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The main difference with our experiment is that there is an evolutionary significance.
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It was not a revolutionary split, it was a pivot that was evolutionary.
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The evolutionary purpose of sweating is, of course, to keep our temperature regulated.
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And, from an evolutionary standpoint at least, sex is all about making babies.
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Evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin argues that fatty foods are good for our health.
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Over evolutionary time a complex set of reward and aversion feedbacks have developed.
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Innovation in Africa, he had learned from that example, had to be "evolutionary".
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WHY MONKEYS and apes took separate evolutionary paths has long been a mystery.
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We asked animal behaviorists, evolutionary anthropologists, bioethicists and behavioral scientists to enlighten us.
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"This discovery puts the clock back for major evolutionary events," Bengtson told Gizmodo.
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If Dr Nesse is right, evolutionary thinking could provide a fruitful new direction.
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This new revelation could require scientists to once again revise the evolutionary timeline.
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It's an old, old story, with many well-known chapters in evolutionary history.
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Maurer was a senior at Tulane, where she studied ecology and evolutionary biology.
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"All of these things are connected, they are ecological and evolutionary," he said.
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But it also reveals a stranger evolutionary history of mammals on the island.
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Consequently, Stedman thinks they're likely involved in some major evolutionary transitions on Earth.
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So, in Dr Boyce's view, the evolutionary-delay hypothesis simply will not do.
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AMLG: If you go back in evolutionary history, amphibians were able to regenerate.
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"That act of innate truth was for me evolutionary and revolutionary," she adds.
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Sharks are an evolutionary success story, thriving for more than 400 million years.
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The peppered moth is one of the most famous animals in evolutionary biology.
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It was this evolutionary leap which greened the Earth in the first place.
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Dr Pritchard's technique thus adds evolutionary biology to the armoury of archaeological anthropology.
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Jenny Tung is an evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist known for her genetics research.
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"The presumption is that it gave some ancestor an evolutionary advantage," he said.
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Photo: Ivain MartinossiThere's an evolutionary arms race going on in the insect world.
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But the key point here is that extra 100 years of evolutionary advancement.
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"This concept that they're evolutionary dead-ends is just a fallacy," Wildt said.
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But it's also evolutionary; we evolved to constantly scan the horizon for threats.
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Many plants, from orchids to ferns, enjoy the benefits of this evolutionary trickery.
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Not everyone has abandoned hope of progress — whether it's called incremental or evolutionary.
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The study's authors concluded that this finding made sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
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The islands now face their greatest evolutionary test yet, and scientists are worried.
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"We're fighting evolutionary mismatch, so it's not surprising [that we struggle]," he says.
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So who wins in the never-ending evolutionary battle between predator and prey?
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The changes tend to be evolutionary, drawing from a fixed repertoire of ideas.
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Yet octopuses, cuttlefish and squid, on their own evolutionary path, developed impressive intelligence.
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The technique transformed scientists' ability to track the evolutionary history of human populations.
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John S. Torday, M.Sc. Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Evolutionary Medicine Harbor-U.
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Collapse also often paves the way for the emergence of new, evolutionary structures.
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Yet even without his evolutionary works, Darwin's accomplishments are nearly impossible to match.
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They saw the Civil War as the nation's own evolutionary struggle for existence.
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"Here you have evolutionary dependence of the creature and the plants," he said.
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Our human evolutionary lineage includes many species and relatives, including Neanderthals and Denisovans.
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These conditions provide a suitable window to study the evolutionary aspects of sleep.
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Part of it is evolutionary, as beasts hunt under the cover of night.
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Cerca, an evolutionary biologist working at school's Evolab, thought his workday was finished.
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Social scientists have traced the evolutionary origins of status seeking to prehistoric times.
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Stevens: They represent... Cognitive features of humanity, somehow rooted in our evolutionary biology.
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Once animals started laying eggs on land, their evolutionary paths diverged, researchers said.
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Conserving RNA editing sites may have come with an evolutionary trade-off, however.
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The mainstream explanations in evolutionary biology for these behaviours are many and varied.
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Apparently our spatial memory is our most developed due to old evolutionary necessity.
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"Blueprint" — and its theory about the evolutionary origins of virtue — became his balm.
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I now think that we should all go back and study evolutionary anthropology.
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"There is the potential for an evolutionary payoff in both respects," he said.
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"Prior studies have tended to focus on evidence from human biology and the modification of a trait rather than its evolutionary origin," said co-author Gunter Wagner, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, in a statement.
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It also may widen the mismatch between our comfy modern world and our evolutionary physiology, says Brian Wood, a professor of anthropology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the senior co-author of the new study.
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"There is plenty of room in my forecast for evolutionary change," he told me.
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Whereas we haven't been through such an evolutionary process in creating our mathematical language.
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Roger ButlinProfessor, Evolutionary Biology, University of SheffieldAll animals are evolving all of the time.
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Clearly, this ancient dolphin had followed a different evolutionary path—but to what end?
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Sauropod populations caught in this geological divorce became physically separated, spawning new evolutionary trajectories.
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Clarke and her team think that these tongues might even reflect an evolutionary adaptation.
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As for the car's exterior design, Ferrari continues to be more evolutionary than revolutionary.
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"We had a blinkered attitude," said James Mallet, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University.
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In terms of an evolutionary explanation, it serves two purposes—one altruistic, one selfish.
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Among population geneticists, sexual reproduction is notoriously difficult to justify as an evolutionary strategy.
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This is probably due in part to our evolutionary history as a social species.
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We've been heading along different branches of the evolutionary tree for 500 million years.
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"The syrinx of bellbirds is unique," Richard Prum, evolutionary ornithologist at Yale, told Gizmodo.
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"This is an evolutionary technology," said Kate McCarthy, a senior analyst at Forrester Research.
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Evolutionary biology tells us this story: everything evolved to make us better at reproducing.
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Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach, two cognitive scientists, draw on evolutionary theory and psychology.
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That's not a bad thing, per se, but it's much more evolutionary than revolutionary.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, they reasoned, immune suppression after strenuous exercise made little sense.
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The researchers think an explanation for the phenomenon may lie in our evolutionary past.
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BOYS like sticks and girls prefer dolls, or so the tidy evolutionary story goes.
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Others still theorise that they were evolutionary fashion statements, as many still are today.
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Occupying the new habitat thus looked like an evolutionary open goal for the tetrapods.
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"From an evolutionary perspective, it's in our nature as humans to trust," said Hallam.
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The Max Planck researchers say this is a rather extreme example of evolutionary divergence.
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Male beetles are currently in the midst of an evolutionary arms race amongst themselves.
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Some evolutionary biologists think this is the whole reason we have hair on heads.
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Juan David Leongomez is an assistant professor of Evolutionary Psychology at El Bosque University.
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That may sound like a long time, but it's not much in evolutionary terms.
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Or maybe manticores are locked in an toxic evolutionary arms race with competing species.
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Everyone knew about them, but didn't quite know where they belonged in evolutionary history.
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From the emu's, it is adaptation in action, every economic fiasco an evolutionary opportunity.
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You can see the full-scale, high resolution image of the evolutionary tree here.
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It is representing evolutionary history that will wink out if we don't preserve it.
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Neutron stars are one of the possible evolutionary end-points of high mass stars.
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Or they managed to survive, setting the groundwork for a critically important evolutionary adaptation.
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And we're being very clear with our customers that this is an evolutionary step.
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She studies animals like bears, and evolutionary patterns of bears, and also in birds.
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I used to think it was an evolutionary advantage — now I'm not so sure.
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It seems there are two schools of thought: one evolutionary, and the other revolutionary.
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What's more, the authors showed that plants, from an evolutionary perspective, don't require consciousness.
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Beata Ujvari, an evolutionary biologist and author on the paper, says they're not sure.
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"2017 will be more of an evolutionary year for us versus a revolutionary year."
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Between songs he fielded questions on everything from evolutionary biology (good) to Spotify (evil).
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The evolutionary war has been going on for a substantially long period of time.
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For too long, we have left the human intellect dangling in empty evolutionary space.
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That led him and Lehman to create a system that mirrors nature's evolutionary niches.
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No part of this phone sees a bigger evolutionary leap than its external design.
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This specific function of MHC genes, Wedekind says, are an ancient evolutionary hang-up.
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One answer is that we, as a species, harbor an evolutionary drive to propagate.
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Evolution had no sooner vanquished Christian theology than outcroppings of "evolutionary theology" began appearing.
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If the instinct wasn't of evolutionary benefit, the behavior would have been rooted out.
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But we're also finding that evolutionary changes can take place over a few generations.
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Much research has focused on how fire gave an evolutionary advantage to early humans.
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Their evolutionary lineage dates back to the Triassic Period, before T-rex and co.
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"The next evolutionary stage is a shift in the definition of art," he says.
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This is a complex subject that runs deep in our D.N.A. and evolutionary history.
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There's something to this whole states-being-laboratories-of-democracy and an evolutionary approach.
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In it, the authors took on one of evolutionary biology's sacred cows: natural selection.
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Ant ancestors developed the queen-worker social structure because it provided an evolutionary advantage.
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These shows elicit a certain voyeuristic tendency that is part of our evolutionary endowment.
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"It's almost an evolutionary scale," Greg Brockman, the chief technology officer of OpenAI, said.
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A new theory published in theJournal of Experimental Zoology proposes a possible evolutionary explanation.
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Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary biologist from Washington University in St. Louis, was also enthusiastic.
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The ecological importance of fungi has left scientists to wonder about their evolutionary history.
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Apple's most powerful, most expensive tablet — the iPad Pro — is getting an evolutionary overhaul.
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Quammen's sprawling history of evolutionary genetics ranges widely in its answer to that question.
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Modern birds lack teeth, of course, because of an evolutionary quirk of their lineage.
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And forests, like grasslands, insects and oxygen-producing microbes, were once a evolutionary innovation.
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For both groups, Leroi's team calculated a value reflecting the rate of evolutionary change.
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"All that matters from an evolutionary standpoint is that you reproduce," Dr. Perdew said.
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Scientists have long known that there must have been predecessors along the evolutionary road.
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But the origins of such same-sex sexual behavior have long puzzled evolutionary biologists.
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For many terrestrial animals, having a black coat seems to offer an evolutionary advantage.
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Evolution prioritizes survival over happinessThis default to planning is part of our evolutionary history.
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As researchers make more of these breakthroughs, the human evolutionary puzzle gets more complicated.
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The museum is not a common destination for evolutionary biologists who specialize in domestication.
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"As a result, they try out new evolutionary solutions much faster than we can."
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I am fairly confident that the picture painted by the evolutionary psychologists is true.
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In an evolutionary sense, our memory hasn't quite become a powerhouse for nonvisual information.
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A century later, evolutionary biologists started thinking seriously about its implications for human behavior.
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Bees' and humans' last common evolutionary ancestor lived more than 600 million years ago.
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But hummingbirds also heard the call of battle, which demanded a different evolutionary course.
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Deball's sprawling installation consists of rhizomatic bamboo structures that resemble an evolutionary tree diagram.
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That's because our rational brains are fitted with not-so-evolved evolutionary hard wiring.
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And there may be an evolutionary reason for why our brains would do this.
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One published essay presents the hypothesis that it's an evolutionary holdover from tadpole development.
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The populations of sparrows in North America can now go their own evolutionary way.
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But more recent research has been changing the narrative on Neanderthals, our evolutionary cousins.
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There's nothing in evolutionary biology that suggests that objective truth is even a thing.
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"Our analyses pave the way towards a better understanding of the evolutionary history of hominins in East Asia," Jean-Jacques Hublin, study author and director of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said in a statement.
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Some think they could be mammals, but recent study of the teeth from another member of this group of animals, called the haramiyids, cast doubt on whether they are truly evolutionary ancestors of mammals or a branch off of the evolutionary tree.
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Intelligent design theorists will protest that they do have good reason for thinking evolutionary theory inadequate: for example, the appearance in the biological world of "irreducible complexity," intricate systems that couldn't have arisen through a series of stepwise alterations as evolutionary theory requires.
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Sarah Otto, theoretical biologist, University of British Columbia: Sex is evolution's answer to an ever-changing world Joan Roughgarden, evolutionary biologist, University of Hawai'i: Male, female: it goes back to size Curtis Lively, evolutionary biologist, Indiana University Bloomington: Sex protects populations from parasites
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They've long had the short end of the stick when it comes to evolutionary genetics.
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Turns out, we might bleed as much as we do to avoid an evolutionary mishap.
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Jeremey Yoder came out as gay while he was a graduate student in evolutionary biology.
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If we cannot modify our mental abilities then we are constrained to an evolutionary niche.
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Pathogens such as influenza are a constant evolutionary pressure to which humans must respond immunologically.
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But for 20 years, the fossils' significance as an evolutionary stepping stone remained a secret.
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That&aposs a great -- by the way, evolutionary trick for animals -- PERINO: Taste like crap.
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Another indicator may signal the evolutionary need for butt hair to trap our natural scent.
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It was subliminal, as compelling as an evolutionary tie as one has to one's parents.
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"Huh?" joked Ilia Leitch, an evolutionary biologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in England.
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Yet another reason for allergies—specifically childhood food allergies—is what's known as 'evolutionary mismatch.
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Joseph Stromberg: What made you decide to tell this story about our evolutionary history now?
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Prior to this, evolutionary biologists normally used similarity as a criterion to assign organisms together.
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What were the evolutionary pressures and environmental conditions that led to gigantism among the dinosaurs?
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Scientism mistakenly takes evolutionary biology and psychology to offer the whole truth about human nature.
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Credit...CreditJoão Araújo Evolutionary biologists retrace the history of life in all its wondrous forms.
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What it represents is the kind of evolutionary starting conditions for this kind of symbiosis.
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The phages can even work in concert with antibiotics, applying evolutionary pressure from both sides.
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This was a brilliant evolutionary move: they now outnumber wasps by around three to one.
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But some of them have taken it one step further and developed incredible evolutionary traits.
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Yet some historians and evolutionary biologists say monogamy is a relatively new, self-imposed system.
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The phone sports an evolutionary design and doesn't stray too far from previous Xperia phones.
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The fish's evolutionary history and its appearance revealed that its venom evolved after its teeth.
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Some birds, the evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs, consume more protein and calcium during breeding season.
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Humans perceive 'bad' odors through either some inbuilt evolutionary acquired mechanism to prevent harm, e.g.
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This mammalian forerunner's ancient evolutionary win is relevant in light of our current global predicament.
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Dr Ané and his colleagues have also worked out the evolutionary origin of nodule formation.
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The Evolutionary Wonder: Giannis Antetokounmpo Giannis Antetokounmpo did not sniff last season's All-Star game.
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Those dark-cowl stories have often been celebrated as a welcome evolutionary super-leap forward.
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To my mind, Michael Eisen, a renowned evolutionary biologist at Berkeley, has the right idea.
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Short of evolutionary changes in human perception, we aren't likely to see any new colors.
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"Sadly, the evidence doesn't support that," Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, told me.
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Studies of DNA indicate that our two evolutionary branches split roughly seven million years ago.
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Thus, Under Tillerson, any new emphasis on energy issues will be more evolutionary than revolutionary.
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The researchers propose that some time in its evolutionary history, its entire genome doubled...twice.
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But as a stylist, you get to be a small part of that evolutionary thing.
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They believe that there is an evolutionary explanation for the sex bias of some viruses.
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Some of our evolutionary success occurred because groups formed, and they tended to be altruistic.
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With these tools, they could re-create the evolutionary history of any organism on earth.
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Another study published last year in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences found a similar pattern in siblings.
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A mismatch between evolutionary history and modern conditions is also behind the human obesity epidemic.
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Basically, soldiers in combat experience something that's a pretty close reproduction of our evolutionary past.
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That bug becomes the genetic algorithm, an evolutionary algorithm that doesn't something we didn't predict.
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Evolutionary psychology has shown that houseplants have enormous influence on our emotions, moods, and memories.
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In biology, co-evolutionary development occurs when two species evolve in relation to each other.
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The orangutan and Gigantopithecus evolutionary lineages split about 12 million years ago, the researchers said.
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They also found evidence that other ancient evolutionary pressures still operate in comparatively modern populations.
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He didn't get to where he is in the sports industry by ignoring evolutionary trends.
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Some scientists have given it a far more recent place on the human evolutionary tree.
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In evolutionary terms, it's a new skill for humankind, and not one we perform instinctively.
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That evolutionary strategy allowed them to thrive on Flores — at least until we showed up.
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"This is what this work is all about, completing that evolutionary narrative," Dr. Carr said.
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Ms. Bickert described the company's policies as evolutionary, reflecting shifts in its social media ecosystem.
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The tome is a buffet of neurology, philosophy, politics, evolutionary science, anthropology, history, and genetics.
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I felt like I was living on the precipice of an evolutionary leap in history.
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"They're at the evolutionary end of how far you can push a penis," she said.
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For Martin Daly, a Canadian evolutionary psychologist, there are deeper, more intrinsic forces at play.
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The psychology behind the stress-reducing effects of cleaning could also have an evolutionary basis.
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From an evolutionary point of view, that's meant to be a helpful impulse, Lang says.
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These insights capture a broader evolutionary picture through the aperture of C. kunmingensis's fossilized nerves.
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That's where the real battle will be: Will we have an evolutionary thrust or stagnation?
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Once, not so long ago, I spent an afternoon emailing a few dozen evolutionary biologists.
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As a behavioral neuroscientist, I know that fear's main evolutionary function is helping us survive.
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There was the evolutionary leap forward from Etsy-style patchwork to globalized sophistication at Bode.
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But the fossil record about the evolutionary step between marine and land life is sparse.
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Their years of analysis revealed that this was the most evolutionary fish of its kind.
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This sort of evolutionary fusion sounds bizarre, Dr. Linz said, but there is some precedent.
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Or are they simply the next evolutionary step in an ever-changing, increasingly global ecosystem?
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Because ctenophore lineages are so ancient, their adaptations can shed light on larger evolutionary questions.
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Scientists have found that animals across the evolutionary spectrum have a keen sense of quantity.
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The extended nursing may be an evolutionary response to the creatures' tiny size and vulnerability.
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This is why neuroscientists believe the links between thinking and breathing were early evolutionary adaptations.
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Plato thought political regimes followed a predictable evolutionary course, from oligarchy to democracy to tyranny.
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So, a lot of what I'll talk about in the evolutionary context is sexual selection.
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By comparing the DNA of different species, scientists have drawn an evolutionary tree of fungi.
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Those who promote more engagement with the North say change will be evolutionary, not revolutionary.
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" "Some of it is evolutionary in the way it developed, but it's still true today.
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An evolutionary key Identifying anamensis is allowing researchers to understand how early human ancestors evolved.
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It's an evolutionary survival instinct that has turned on those it was meant to protect.
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It's possible that the separate evolutionary paths of bonobos and chimpanzees have shaped their generosity.
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"Investigations are evolutionary," said Eric Van der Sijpt, a spokesman for the Federal Prosecutor's Office.
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"This demonstrates an evolutionary process of the beak for the first time," said Dr. Wang.
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This idea suggests a solution to the evolutionary paradox that is human childhood and adolescence.
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According to evolutionary studies, why did mantises evolve to resemble these different kinds of plants?
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A central part of this story is the furious evolutionary battle between moths and bats.
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At the very birth of evolutionary theory, scientists were arguing about how sexual selection worked.
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But our evolutionary legacy may also be a burden, Dr. Trumble and Dr. Finch speculated.
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Evolutionary biologists have long puzzled over how eukaryotes could have evolved from such simple precursors.
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They're evolutionary superstars, too: Walking sharks could be the most recently evolved shark on Earth.
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His scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.
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What evolutionary process might account for their curiously symbiotic relationship with the spa's human residents?
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Together, the studies describe early steps toward understanding the novel coronavirus and its evolutionary history.
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Hundreds of millions of years ago, animals developed fever as an evolutionary response to infection.
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It is only very recently that the evolutionary importance of this work has become clear.
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Then the scientists placed all of these living and extinct individuals on an evolutionary tree.
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" What evolutionary adaptations allow them to "take advantage of every prey opportunity that comes by.
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Scientists know that birds evolved from dinosaurs, and Archaeopteryx is part of that evolutionary path.
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Girls have a statistic, perhaps evolutionary, advantage over to boys when it comes to survival.
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It's an evolutionary adaptation that helps us avoid danger and react quickly in a crisis.
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Yet Walker concludes that the evolutionary upsides of sleep are far greater than these downsides.
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Recent advances in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology have all but killed off that idea.
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Evolutionary biologists have long included microbes and parasites in how they think about sexual reproduction.
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When approaching design for this new era, automakers must introduce revolutionary cars, not evolutionary cars.
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Depending on the group, he said, large sizes come and go as evolutionary opportunities arise.
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Over evolutionary time, the icefish accumulated lipids, or fats, which, like oil, float in water.
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The fundamental problem with Diglett is its evolutionary form, Dugtrio, is three of it combined.
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From an evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense whatsoever that music makes us feel emotions.
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It could be the fastest acceleration of evolutionary diversification in the last half-billion years.
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It's only in the last few years that scientists have been paying attention to examining evolutionary processes in urban environments, said Anne Charmantier, an evolutionary ecologist with The National Center for Scientific Research, or CNRS, in Montpellier, France, who was not involved in the research.
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The researchers suggest that the gender difference in heterosexual couples could be influenced by evolutionary factors.
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That tricky word "civilized" connotes enlightenment, behavioral restraint, evolutionary advancement and the suppression of bestial impulses.
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This is not just our brain going awry — in evolutionary terms, it can help us survive.
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The process is very Darwinian, and reminiscent of yet another approach to AI development—evolutionary algorithms.
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This promiscuity enabled Katzourakis to calibrate his evolutionary clock to determine precisely when foamy viruses emerged.
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Running away has been an evolutionary advantage since Pangea, and it still works perfectly fine today.
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But America's sluggish, expensive, and uncompetitive broadband industry could severely hamper video gaming's next evolutionary step.
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"Please do not put anything in the title about 'New dinosaur rewrites evolutionary history'," he said.
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Such hybridization illustrates why the Eizirik group's delineation of the Panthera evolutionary tree is so noteworthy.
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The question that has tormented some evolutionary biologists ever since is whether nature favored this arrangement.
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Researcher and art historian Jonathan Fineberg discusses the evolutionary and neurological benefits of looking at art.
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The unique evolutionary side-step may also be of interest to the world of materials science.
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This different pattern of inheritance gives mitochondrial genes a different evolutionary agenda than nuclear DNA does.
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That's how convergent evolution works—similar evolutionary pressures could lead to unrelated but similar-looking animals.
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That is a strong evolutionary pressure to conform to the prevailing social norm, whatever it is.
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On Campus Dr. Heying is an evolutionary biologist and a former professor at Evergreen State College.
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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), a class of AI techniques, are uniquely suited for these kinds of problems.
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Obviously, if we stop breathing, from an evolutionary perspective that would not be a good idea.
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Antonis Rokas, an evolutionary biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not involved in the study, agreed.
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"We're always seeing crazy things," University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Daniel Rabosky said in an interview.
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Understanding this interaction between phages and bacteria is important, though, for reasons beyond its evolutionary elegance.
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From an evolutionary perspective, having thick, luscious hair traditionally signifies youth, fitness, and health, she says.
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Competitive drives For sound evolutionary reasons, younger men find themselves especially concerned with status and dominance.
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Image: Andreas Trept/Wikimedia CommonsBoning is one of the most important actions in the evolutionary game.
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Regardless, the paper's findings are a net contribution to the deeply murky field of evolutionary biology.
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The German scientists said their experiments can help identify drivers of "selfless" evolutionary behaviors in animals.
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The evolutionary function is to protect us from toxic or dangerous foods — that's the primary purpose.
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MBD: I'm not aware of the evolutionary explanation for color in mushrooms, or this species specifically.
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It was a period of frenzied evolutionary development and biodiversity buildup, mainly in the world's oceans.
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In our evolutionary history, disproportioned hips and heads were often deadly for both mother and child.
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One involves an evolutionary analysis of the way legumes became bacteria-friendly in the first place.
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I'm an evolutionary biologist, and I've spent my career studying the evolution of lizards, in particular.
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There's a simple evolutionary reason why the human eye is naturally drawn to anything that shines.
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Ancestral gossipers might have actually had an evolutionary advantage over those who minded their own business.
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But for paleontologists interested in reconstructing the evolutionary history of whales, this time period is problematic.
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"We feel it's an adaptation, part of the evolutionary competition between predator and prey," Meyers said.
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Unlike other Pokémon, Eevee isn't destined to a single evolutionary line or bound by a binary.
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This would have been the first evolutionary arms race, a fight that we're still waging today.
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The negative emotions needed for such variation could induce life-saving innovations—a clear evolutionary advantage.
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It's a disturbing consequence of an evolutionary arms race, the females' countermeasure to notoriously aggressive males.
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Organisms' evolutionary history may play a large role in determining how vulnerable they are to radiation.
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Sarah Tishkoff, an evolutionary biologist at University of Pennsylvania who didn't work on this study, agrees.
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Nature has given us more evidence that we are the laziest link in the evolutionary chain.
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What a wondrous way to understand and live in a built environment—through its evolutionary origins.
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Some believe that kissing with tongue is a natural evolutionary progression that aids in mate choice.
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Could this process, Dr Carr wondered, make up for the evolutionary disadvantage the virus otherwise inflicts?
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The ecosystems within them are notorious for producing evolutionary weirdos, intricately adapted to their unusual surroundings.
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It's also possible that Tahlequah's behavior was influenced more by evolutionary pressures, than by grieving itself.
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AlphaStar demonstrates one of the main uses of evolutionary algorithms: maintaining a population of different solutions.
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Back in 2020, Interscone spent a fortune designing and building a scooter fleet with evolutionary programming.
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The evolutionary history of other groups of olfactory and taste receptors has yet to be deciphered.
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It's not so much a stand-alone track as a glimpse into some inexorable evolutionary process.
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The writer is emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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There are a handful of evolutionary explanations, Dr. Silander said, but many of them sound contradictory.
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In nanotechnology research, that figure is 22020 percent, and in evolutionary biology, it is 2275 percent.
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Weird beetle dick (Image Johanna Rönn)Spiny genitals aren't just some outrageous evolutionary display of masculinity.
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The evolutionary jump of tyrannosaurs from people- and horse-size to behemoths has remained a mystery.
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His death was announced by Duke University, where he was an emeritus professor of evolutionary anthropology.
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Understanding the evolutionary history of the island foxes is important to ensuring they have a future.
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It's a Dennett-esque foray into both the emergence of the self and its evolutionary perpetuation.
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"It doesn't mean it is not important, it just means it doesn't have an evolutionary purpose."
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But how can they make good inferences about things that weren't part of our evolutionary ancestry?
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Young is an evolutionary next step in a league that forever has more frontier to explore.
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In 2003, Epstein pledged thirty million dollars to Harvard to create the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
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Her siblings include a federal judge, an evolutionary biologist, an anthropology professor and a social worker.
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"But we should know our evolutionary history" and consider how that history might influence our health.
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The research suggests that countershading is not a modern evolutionary development, but a timeless camouflage technique.
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It has an evolutionary purpose, after all; it helps us detect and avoid potentially dangerous situations.
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"Fossils get refossilized in museums," said Dr. Tseng, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo.
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The difference has an evolutionary rationale, a physiological basis, and a direct correlation with math scores.
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The Galápagos tortoises have since continued to be a rich source of inquiry for evolutionary scientists.
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Mr. Amodio and his colleagues think the evolutionary history of cephalopods may explain this intelligence paradox.
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As a result, talking about our dreams may also be a part of an evolutionary trait.
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They were the result of specific, discernible aspects of the animals' environments, anatomy and evolutionary legacy.
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If it provided some kind of evolutionary advantage—which it doesn't—it would make more sense.
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Feelings are an evolutionary solution nature has come up with as a way of preserving life.
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But understanding butterfly wing patterning is just a step toward addressing larger questions in evolutionary biology.
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If you could guide a species down one evolutionary track or another, what would you prioritize?
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First, the evidence against: It's believed that modern-day birds are the evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs.
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But certain Neanderthal genes became more common, probably because they provided some kind of evolutionary advantage.
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But Dr. Kawahara's team has concluded that food, not predation, was the more likely evolutionary prompt.
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But as innocuous as those fossils appear, they may speak volumes about our own evolutionary history.
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Stambaugh's almost certain of it, saying there's an evolutionary basis for some of this type behavior.
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Americans want to change, but I think they don't want revolutionary change — they want evolutionary change.
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Why this extra life stage after reproduction evolved was something of a mystery to evolutionary biologists.
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These findings jibe with the research of Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford.
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From an evolutionary perspective, trusting in the knowledge of others has worked extremely well for humans.
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The researchers developed mathematical techniques to compare the structure of the skulls, searching for evolutionary links.
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So could secrets to our evolutionary past (and sexual conflicts) be hidden in our genital shapes?
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Throughout its evolutionary history, the bladderwort acquired its curated genetic possessions in a couple of ways.
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This constant swapping of old memories for new ones can have real evolutionary benefits, they say.
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In humans, however, women live long past menopause — and there&aposs an evolutionary reason for that.
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Most of its ideology depends on ideas taken from evolutionary psychology about normal, natural human behavior.
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He admitted that he was not — the field of evolutionary biology is distant from his own.
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"In evolutionary terms, we all collected," says Dr. Dimitrios Tsivrikos, consumer psychologist at University College London.
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For most of our evolutionary history, none of these self-focused goals mattered or even existed.
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Each year a different, massive 17-year-old crew awakes — likely an evolutionary strategy to survive.
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The word "meme" was invented by evolutionary biologist and future atheist heartthrob Richard Dawkins in 1976.
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A weird-looking plant, worse than both its evolutionary predecessor (Bellsprout) and its final form (Victreebel).
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Expert opinion: Larson put this impulse in the context of both evolutionary biology and identity reassertion.
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"In a lot of these cases, these bizarre types of reproduction seem to have arisen by two closely related species hybridizing at some point in their evolutionary history and something going really, really wrong with reproduction," University of Edinburgh evolutionary biologist Laura Ross told The Scientist.
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When we look at anxiety from an evolutionary perspective, the physical symptoms start to make more sense.
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Dr Woods suspected that, in an evolutionary two-for-one, this peristaltic action is also moving oxygen.
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Rats and mice are much closer on the evolutionary tree than humans and pigs, for one thing.
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Without a concrete way to calculate the shifts in evolutionary rates over time, scientists couldn't compare dates.
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More broadly, the work by Katzourakis and Ho challenges the idea of a steadily ticking evolutionary clock.
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This study also shows how island environments can influence the evolutionary trajectory of animals in dramatic ways.
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Of course, using "science" to justify male superiority is much older than anything espoused by evolutionary psychologists.
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At this critical stage in evolutionary history, apes were already moving away from a purely arboreal existence.
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This represented a momentous evolutionary leap for these sea creatures, liberating them from having to lay eggs.
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"Funny to think, but in half a billion years, a lot of evolutionary changes can take place."
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