| 单词 | evolutionary |
| 例句 | In throwing it back, they set in motion an evolutionary process: If you are a crab and your carapace is ordinary, the humans will eat you. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Technologically primitive peoples were considered evolutionary vestiges of human descent from apelike ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest of these unsolved problems is to establish human history as a historical science, on a par with recognized historical sciences such as evolutionary biology, geology, and climatology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The band is the political, economic, and social organization that we inherited from our millions of years of evolutionary history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not the evolutionary biologists’ and not Luce’s either. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As an unforeseen bonus for the purposes of this book, evolutionary biology is a historical science forced to use methods different from those of the laboratory sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the rise of Darwinian theory, explanations were recast in terms of natural selection and of evolutionary descent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You are a side effect,” Van Houten continued, “of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z As a rule, viruses, microbes, and parasites do not kill the majority of their victims—the pest that wipes out its host species has a bleak evolutionary future. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘The dodo. It dropped off the evolutionary path.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no evolutionary reason for them to ever invent romance. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Ah, you were consciously extending the evolutionary tendency inherent in Being; one manifestation of which is exploration.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as an embryo retraces much of the human evolutionary past, so budding artists reinvent the first stages of art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The evolutionary point of that is to make the muscles as hard as possible—to turn them into a kind of armor and limit bleeding in the event of injury. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Fate had arranged, I concluded, that an example of a major evolutionary change in a single generation, the very thing Muller had said could never happen, should take place in his own laboratory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For the last 33 years my fieldwork as an evolutionary biologist has brought me into close contact with a wide range of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We have a common organic chemistry and a common evolutionary heritage. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The more things these hands could do, the more successful their owners were, so evolutionary pressure brought about an increasing concentration of nerves and finely tuned muscles in the palms and fingers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather it is to track the evolutionary process by which success has been built upon success; that way we can come to understand that science works, and how it works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely–make that miraculously–fortunate in your personal ancestry. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This evolutionary response is not one that does the genetically susceptible dying individual any good. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Any such attempt to define stages of any evolutionary or developmental continuum—whether of musical styles, human life stages, or human societies—is doubly doomed to imperfection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a powerful random character to the evolutionary process. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Didn't you study this in evolutionary biology?” he asked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But in general the random character of the evolutionary process should create extraterrestrial creatures very different from any that we know. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In part, the answer depends upon evolutionary reasoning. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From a germ’s point of view, they’re clever evolutionary strategies to broadcast the germ. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, the difficulties historians face in establishing cause-and-effect relations in the history of human societies are broadly similar to the difficulties facing astronomers, climatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, geologists, and paleontologists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our separate gene libraries have many pages in common, another reminder of our common evolutionary heritage. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Darwin had obviously split ways with Lamarck’s evolutionary ideas. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The surface of the sea is a mirror, reflecting divergent evolutionary paths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Many of the geologists argued against an evolutionary theory that one of his old Edinburgh professors, Robert Grant, proposed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as our inquiries are limited to one or two evolutionary lines on a single planet, we will remain forever ignorant of the possible range and brilliance of other intelligences and other civilizations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In biology there is a principle of powerful if imperfect applicability called recapitulation: in our individual embryonic development we retrace the evolutionary history of the species. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists in those fields tend to be ignorantly disdainful of fields to which those methodologies are inappropriate and which must therefore seek other methodologies—such as my own research areas of ecology and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the evolutionary biologist S. L. Washburn writes: Most of human evolution took place before the advent of agriculture when men lived in small groups, on a face-to- face basis. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Those opposite evolutionary courses sealed the outcome of their eventual collision. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ability to make art is one of our most distinctive features, for it separates us from all other creatures across an evolutionary gap that is unbridgeable. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The disconcerting lessons of heliocentrism, of evolutionary theory, and of relativity and quantum theory are frequently cited cases in point. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The pattern of evolutionary causality is a web of astonishing complexity; the incompleteness of our understanding humbles us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since completing my Ph.D. in 1961, I have divided my scientific research efforts between two fields: molecular physiology on the one hand, evolutionary biology and biogeography on the other hand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From an evolutionary perspective, 70,000 years is a relatively short interval. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Might they somehow have an inkling of the long evolutionary progression from genes to brains to libraries that has occurred on the obscure planet Earth? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand why, evolutionary psychologists argue, we need to delve into the hunter-gatherer world that shaped us, the world that we subconsciously still inhabit. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If the conditions change, different types of individuals may now survive or reproduce better and become “naturally selected,” with the result that the population undergoes evolutionary change. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The flourishing field of evolutionary psychology argues that many of our present-day social and psychological characteristics were shaped during this long pre-agricultural era. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t think Salim’s dropped off the evolutionary path, Ted.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In our tenure on this planet we have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage, hereditary propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders and hostility to outsiders, which place our survival in some question. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The immediate appeal of Lamarck’s idea was that it offered a reassuring story of progress: all animals were progressively adapting to their environments, and thus progressively slouching along an evolutionary ladder toward perfection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We and our pathogens are now locked in an escalating evolutionary contest, with the death of one contestant the price of defeat, and with natural selection playing the role of umpire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The same evolutionary forces prevailed to replicate a particular model’s positive traits and breed out excess drag and instability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, we need to think of science as being the result of an evolutionary process where good science has had, over the last five centuries, a better prospect of survival than bad science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The fast-food chains have been able to build foods that push our evolutionary buttons. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mitochondria are widely believed to descend from bacteria that long ago somehow became incorporated into one of our evolutionary ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For example, some evolutionary psychologists argue that ancient foraging bands were not composed of nuclear families centred on monogamous couples. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hutterites, obviously, didn’t get this idea from contemporary evolutionary psychology. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole process was much more evolutionary than revolutionary, especially during the sixteenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Blending was the same as infinite dilution, and no evolutionary information could be maintained in the face of such dilution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, culturally speaking, today men with big butts are considered less desirable than a man with a potbelly, which is no doubt wrong from an evolutionary point of view. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Turner wondered what Darwin might have said about the evolutionary advantages of being silent. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Because he lived before Darwin, his speculations about extraterrestrial life are innocent of the evolutionary perspective. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar ones apply to other historical subjects whose place among the natural sciences is nevertheless secure, including astronomy, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, geology, and paleontology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The surface of the sea is a mirror, reflecting divergent evolutionary paths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When we study the narrative of plants such as wheat and maize, maybe the purely evolutionary perspective makes sense. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From those earliest Semitic alphabets, one line of blueprint copying and evolutionary modification led via early Arabian alphabets to the modern Ethiopian alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The two types of animals are consequently considered two distinct species, moving along separate evolutionary paths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Two spheres with separate concerns, duties, even—the evolutionary biologists might say—thought patterns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Yet in the case of animals such as cattle, sheep and Sapiens, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, we have to consider how evolutionary success translates into individual experience. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Every bit of it—its spindly legs, its chronically puzzled expression, its comical oven-mitt antlers—looks like some droll evolutionary joke. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don’t fulfill the other part of the definition: they don’t consciously grow plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These survivors then reproduce to make more of their kind, thereby driving evolutionary change within a species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Such societies might live to a prosperous old age, their lifetimes measured perhaps on geological or stellar evolutionary time scales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The book’s subject matter is history, but the approach is that of science—in particular, that of historical sciences such as evolutionary biology and geology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Speaking fancifully is not meant to diminish the sophistication of the tools used by evolutionary biologists and their colleagues to explore the dynamics of natural selection. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z Our bodies are filled with layers of evolutionary histories; both recent and ancient adaptations influence how and who you are in every way, including what happens to the food you eat. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z The third phenomenon of evolutionary biology of interest here is the existence of niche opportunities . Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z Apparently our spatial memory is our most developed due to old evolutionary necessity. Jason Segel: By the Book 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The result is that, like other modern moral sentiments such as trust and altruism, empathy is increasingly seen as a "social glue" and the evolutionary basis of human co-operation. Barack Obama and the 'empathy deficit' 2013-01-04T16:30:11Z After discovering the practical value of evolutionary computation, Suominen began reading about evolutionary biology. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z It's an obvious one for an evolutionary biologists to ask. Pop palaeontologists need your help 2013-02-13T13:26:55Z "Tool use is exceedingly rare in the animal kingdom," evolutionary ecologist Christian Rutz of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, who led the study published in the journal Nature, said in an email. Endangered Hawaiian crow shows a knack for tool use 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z On the cosmic scale, some philosophers speculate that the appearance of conscious, inquiring human minds could be part of some deep evolutionary process whereby the universe comes to know itself. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z Recent archaeological discoveries, they write, show that early humans, far from being automatons blindly moving in evolutionary lock step in response to material pressures, self-consciously experimented with “a carnival parade of political forms.” What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Yet sometimes it seems that choosing to wear the same clothing as the people around us is a lot less about our materialistic desires than it is about our evolutionary development as humans. The New Mom Uniform of Park Slope 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The show was an evolutionary leap from previous attempts to skewer news like “That Was the Week That Was,” “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live” and HBO’s ”Not Necessarily the News.” Look back in laughter: ‘The Daily Show’ celebrates at 25 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Their goal for their first cookbook was to demonstrate an evolutionary approach to the cuisine: seasonal, technique-driven, not heavy. ‘New German Cooking,’ reviewed: Expect the wurst, and then some 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The film, of course, features its own heroic monolith, a gleaming black structure that spawns evolutionary leaps. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z We’ve become accustomed to thinking of humanity as the exclusive preserve of homo sapiens, but perhaps we need to make some room at the top of the evolutionary tree for others. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Moreover, the naturally occurring patterns in some stones — holes or circular depressions that resemble eyes, for example, or protuberances like noses — supposedly reveal a hard-wired hunger for representation: an aesthetic impulse in our evolutionary forebears. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z And a book about an unsung theory of Darwin’s seeks to explain beauty as an evolutionary function. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z “This was not,” Farmer writes, “a history of inevitable mortality that resulted from ancient evolutionary forces. … It was the contingent history of a population made vulnerable.” The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Its grain and fiber carry the evolutionary legacy of a species and the record of an individual life. Review: ‘Sam Maloof: 36 Views of a Master Woodworker’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Wallace's independent discovery and publication of evolutionary theory in 1858 is fully equal to Darwin's. Alfred Russel Wallace by Tim Flannery 2011-02-26T00:07:55Z Why should we assume that Sapiens are the end of the evolutionary line? Review: ‘Homo Deus’ Foresees a Godlike Future. (Ignore the Techno-Overlords.) 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z There is no guarantee, anyway, that a "rare breed" will taste better than a common one; a "rare breed" might be an evolutionary blunder, a porcine DNA dead end. Let's start the foodie backlash 2012-09-28T21:45:06Z It was really an evolutionary process, which, like I said, now that I know, I've seen also the feedback, I understand what people are responding to and what we could do better. J.Crew president-turned-"Stylish" star Jenna Lyons offers advice on reinventing yourself: "Be open" 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The average person responds to danger instinctually: Fight or flight is our evolutionary default, backed by adrenaline, which increases blood flow in the body and brain. Is cowardice a crime? Scot Peterson’s failure leaves us with complicated questions. 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Lizard Brain, there is only so much you can do for an evolutionary anomaly, a human built to self-destruct. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Wade takes this already controversial argument a step further, contending that “slight evolutionary differences in social behavior” underlie social and cultural differences. Nicholas Wade’s ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z At a deeper cultural level, her journey is yet stranger and more wonderful, embodying as it does a half-century of global feminism and the evolutionary arc of modern India. Gimlet Eye: Indian Artisan Is Advocate for Women 2010-07-21T20:10:00Z Out of accidents, order takes shape; we see this to be as true of the paleontologist’s enterprise as it is of evolutionary change. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z However, the evolutionary advantage of religion to humankind is clear. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z Its evolutionary origin would explain why a substantial percentage of the population shares this fear, even if many people manage to overcome it and, unlike Madden, continue to fly. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z Lee, a paleoanthropologist, tells us much about our evolutionary origins by sorting through our ancestors’ mortal remains. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Story is so deep in our heritage – our evolutionary heritage – it's what binds people together; it's what interests us in each other; it's what we want to hear. Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011-02-28T00:04:00Z Forty-two percent of the public does not believe in evolutionary biology, while 24 percent believe that the sun orbits the earth. We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Mostly, Scott says, "it is fun to watch Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and to marvel at whatever divine or evolutionary miracle concentrated so much charisma in the two of them." 'Focus' could be sharper, but Smith and Robbie bring heat, reviews say 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Botanists are still using these unprepossessing, desiccated branches and leaves to discover some pretty vital aspects of our world, primarily the evolutionary relationships among plants. Perspective | Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take its pulse 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Brad Pitt does the honors in this 45-minute cut, a brief tour of astrophysics and evolutionary biology as they relate to the deep and enduring questions of philosophy and religion. Review: ‘Voyage of Time,’ the Cosmology of Terrence Malick (the Short Version) 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Join director Rosenthal as he journeys from the Azores to the Gulf of Mexico and beyond to document one of the ocean’s most surprising evolutionary wonders: enormous, warm-blooded bluefin tuna. Miss the sea? These documentaries about the ocean go beneath the surface. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “We’re all beings that experience things in a similar way because of our evolutionary history.” Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z There’s absolutely an evolutionary case for why anxiety is adaptive. Author Sharon Begley on why we “Can’t. Just. Stop.” being compulsive 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z I rather like this older ritual, in fact, as it’s more in keeping with evolutionary biology. Don’t trust the Godless 2012-07-01T15:00:00Z Not only is the fish unique for its age, but it’s part of a species that’s considered to be an evolutionary link between land and water animals. World's oldest living aquarium fish acts like a 'puppy' 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Still, the man who outlined the laws of natural selection well understood the evolutionary purpose of displays that, in humans, are often dismissed as mere vanity. The Peacocks Return 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Following along with this evolutionary journey will be easier for those who watched “The Sopranos,” week after week, for 86 episodes of detailed, intimate, explanatory character development. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Review: The Best Really Is Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In a whimsical way that’s difficult to describe, the book explores what life might be like on a planet where cats had fared a little better in the evolutionary chain. Marathons of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ ‘The Simpsons’ and More 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z “Sugar is a deep, deep ancient craving,” Daniel Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University recently told Business Insider. 9 shocking facts you need to know about sugar 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z That tricky word “civilized” connotes enlightenment, behavioral restraint, evolutionary advancement and the suppression of bestial impulses. Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Where Majesty Meets Monstrosity 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z And the images, lined up edge to edge in a solid row running across two walls, appear to be arranged in no evolutionary order, with no hidden hierarchies or even mutual connections. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z Why was your discovery of the oldest vertebrate embryo so important to evolutionary history? Secrets of T-rex sex! 2012-10-28T00:30:00Z Well, they could and probably do in evolutionary time. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The catch phrase in evolutionary psychology is no longer the “survival of the fittest,” but rather, “survival of the most nurtured.” 10 reasons we love love 2014-03-15T22:00:00Z And any evolutionary psychologist will tell you that evolution has little interest in your being happy, beyond trying to make sure that you’re not so listless or miserable that you lose the will to reproduce. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z The author raises interesting questions about the evolutionary explanations for eating disorders—though his answers are highly speculative. Shape-shifting 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The evolutionary leap is unquestionable, although the precise reasons for it are unclear. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z A person who is unwilling or unable to override extensive portions of his evolutionary programming will be unlikely to live the life of his own choosing. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z Ms. Zunshine, whose specialty is 18th-century British literature, became familiar with the work of evolutionary psychologists while she was a graduate student at Stanford in the 1990s. Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z The researchers wondered whether this trait might be an evolutionary adaptation for holding tools, akin to people's opposable thumbs. Endangered Hawaiian crow shows a knack for tool use 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In evolutionary terms, attentiveness and attachment confer fitness. Milwaukee is the new Portland 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Jolting tempo changes impeded the evolutionary flow of the first. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-05-24T21:31:00Z Philosophically, he belonged to the relaxed and evolutionary whig tradition exemplified by grandees such as Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden, but in temperament he was an odd mixture of managerial technocrat and Fabian interventionist. Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z It does indeed seem that religion must have afforded an evolutionary advantage. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z Because of the videos, the suggestive text, the display of paleontologists’ tools, the reminders of changing interpretations, and the emphasis on new research, dinosaurs here become part of a contemporary evolutionary process of understanding. Exhibition Review: Giants on Tiptoe at a Los Angeles Museum 2011-07-19T16:30:28Z But there's also a tautness of musical gesture that embraces the anti-Wagnerian methodology of Brahms and a sense of organic, evolutionary progression that pre-empts Sibelius. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z Genetics research, early aviation, controversies over Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, controversies over Albert Einstein’s Relativity Theory, battlefield applications of early X-ray technology... Andrea Barrett’s “Archangel”: historical fiction about science 2013-08-14T22:56:49Z Three visits over that relatively brief period revealed a work in evolutionary progress, with many changes along the way. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s not bodily, and it’s not just evolutionary. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z It was even beneficial, from an evolutionary standpoint. ‘It’s so toxic’: why we’re addicted to mean online gossip about women 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z It has now morphed into the “selfish gene” of evolutionary psychologists. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z If I were a biologist, I would be trying to delve into our evolutionary past. Evolution and the mind: An author’s response 2012-09-21T22:48:00Z It's an evolved genetic trait that likely occurred as an evolutionary mutation and distinguishes salmon from other types of fish. The color of farmed salmon comes from adding an antioxidant to their feed 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z One manifestation of this modest evolutionary impulse is that — as both Combs and Singleton pointed out — there are no beer songs on the new album. Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Our view of all these sorts of evolutionary apologetics, his included, might be apparent from the title of one of our subheadings, “Shoveling After the Parade.” Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z Something I'm engaged with is evolutionary biology, not physics. Tom Stoppard, beneficiary of the subconscious 2012-02-02T10:54:07Z The most inflated and confused claims for evolutionary psychology, it seems to me, are the suggestions that policy-makers need to pay much more attention to its findings. Evolution and the mind: An author’s response 2012-09-21T22:48:00Z These days, exceptional modernist works that have evolutionary connections with contemporary art — such as later Monet, which was admired by the Abstract Expressionists — are much more in demand. Wary Art Collectors Find Gems in the Past 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Experiments show our bodies are designed to crave calories in any form, and evolutionary biologists say that's because we needed to find as many as possible to survive. How ultra-processed foods get us hooked — and how to resist 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Ah, answering that question brings the evolutionary biologists in their adaptationist straitjackets running across the fields, as Larkin might have put it, had he been remotely interested in such matters. Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg - review 2012-02-10T08:59:00Z It stands to reason that such an advanced civilization might use that computing power to run an “ancestor simulation”—essentially, a high-powered version of the video game “The Sims,” focussed on their evolutionary history. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It seems unlikely to me, but I'll leave that question to evolutionary biologists. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z And this does look like a freak in evolutionary terms. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z Often, racial Puritanism combined with evolutionary science to lurid effect. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z In a brief section on the evolutionary history of lungs, Stephen states that they evolved from the swim bladders that allowed ancient fish to control their buoyancy as they swished about. No Better Time to Consider Our Lungs 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Her sister Jeanine, an evolutionary biologist, helped her on the medical aspects of the plot. Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Besides the founder effect, another phenomenon of special interest from evolutionary biology is punctuated equilibrium. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z Rediscovering ourselves means rediscovering time — not the time of push notifications and 14-day infection rates, but a deep, evolutionary time, where who we were informs who we are and who we will be. Seeking Historical Exhibits That Speak to the Here and Now 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z But by the 1940s, scientists began to reach consensus over the central role of natural selection in the evolutionary process. From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America 2014-02-22T19:00:00Z Before that point, there is no evolutionary reason for any mammal to differentiate their voices from any other. Why It's So Hard to Ignore a Baby's Cry, According to Science 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z "But why is there a sense of guilt? Of jealousy? That’s where the evolutionary model comes in." Festival of Books: Science writers debate -- Is there a morality gene? 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Marshaling evidence from sources including evolutionary biology and her own Berkeley lab, she argues that the kids’ll be all right pretty much no matter what their parents do. Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Q: From an evolutionary point of view, dancing makes absolutely no sense. You know it feels good to dance. These scientists reveal why. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The resolutions come, in part, from considering the question of our diets in a broader evolutionary context. Was ancient man a vegetarian? 2012-08-27T23:23:00Z This, he asserts, is why beauty should not be seen as merely the stamp of quality assurance that conventional evolutionary theory thinks it is. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z With music monetarily devalued more than ever, hatchling Seattle duo responds to the evolutionary challenge by using freely downloadable hiphop songs to promote Yuk-brand clothes sold at Capitol Hill skate/rap boutique Goods . Seattle clothes/rap duo Yuk strikes again with "Step it Up" 2010-06-23T20:46:00Z A science reporter for The Times argues that creativity “is as natural as reproduction itself” while exploring its evolutionary origins, examining its science and providing insight from notable creative types. Newly Published, From the California Desert to Capitol Hill 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Anyone who is skeptical about the details of popular forms of evolutionary psychology is liable to be charged with thinking so. Evolution and the mind: An author’s response 2012-09-21T22:48:00Z “These companies aren’t actually testing your ancestry at all,” says Mark Thomas, professor of evolutionary genetics at University College London. ‘It made me question my ancestry’: does DNA home testing really understand race? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Returning to evolutionary biology, scholars in that area of study have said much more about natural selection than I have here. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z Anzeri has said that his embroidered images suggest "other possible evolutionary dimensions for the people pictured", but his work has a surrealist rather than a Darwinian undertow. Maurizio Anzeri's embroidered photographs make patterns of the past 2013-05-09T13:30:01Z So thank you, Chris Packham, who may just be edging ahead in the evolutionary battle to be the next Sir David. TV review: Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special; Secrets of Our Living Planet; True Love 2012-06-17T22:00:01Z “Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will be forever closed.” How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Despite what you may see, I am an evolutionary anomaly. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The exhibition also explains that after their extinction 66 million years ago, no evolutionary branches led outward from the 150 species or so that once plied the skies. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z In this documentary, Attenborough recounts his life — alongside the evolutionary history of life on earth — grieves the loss of the wild places around us and offers a vision for the future. From Aaron Sorkin's "Trial of the Chicago 7" to "Emily in Paris," what's new on Netflix in October 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z "Triopticus is a really interesting example of evolutionary convergence that shows that what we thought were unique body shapes in many dinosaurs actually evolved millions of years before in the Triassic Period," Stocker said. Hard-headed: prehistoric Texas reptile boasted bony domed skull 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But leaving may also prove the evolutionary value of sudden-onset migraines and swine flu: claiming them lets us beat hasty retreats with impunity. Social Q’s: The Sister Next Door 2014-04-04T01:06:58Z Resistance is a defensive adaptation, an evolutionary strategy that allows bacteria to protect themselves against antibiotics’ power to kill them. Read this and you may never eat chicken again 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z You have turned to evolutionary biology and anthropology to help understand the development of economic institutions and behaviour. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z Burgess’ home is like her work, organic and evolutionary. Small house is a great house for interior designer’s family 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “With the extra peripheral vision that is a kind of evolutionary adaptation for refugees, persecuted people and immigrants, I would sense, on the plane, the sideways glances of savage, disturbed curiosity.” To Nosh or Not to Nosh: An Immigrant’s Dilemma 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Like a creature focused on its evolutionary fitness, MTV has, in recent years, been shedding its vestigial organ: music videos. The Scandalous Dullness of MTV’s First Post-Millennial V.M.A.s 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The more intensely pious the believer becomes, however, the greater the risk that these emotions will spill over into other parts of the evolutionary hack. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z As evolutionary beings, we’re still made to know about 100 people. How “High-Rise’s” orgy scenes got made on a budget: “‘Game of Thrones’ has pumped the per-person cost of nudity through the roof” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Maeve’s sense of resolve may be bracing and perhaps tyrannical, but she’s one step ahead on the evolutionary scale of the show. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Rossellini also touches on evolutionary trends and domestication, using the example of wolves and dogs, and marvels at some animals’ acting skills. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Surrounding the brain stem is the limbic system, which is our evolutionary link to the earliest mammals. Touring the brain 2012-09-01T20:00:00Z While many would take legitimate issue with ideas around gendered evolutionary advantages, much of societal function has been shaped by them and reinforced. Does digital dating put women at an evolutionary disadvantage? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z What evolutionary process might account for their curiously symbiotic relationship with the spa’s human residents? Review: ‘A Cure for Wellness’ Is a Riot of Film References. With Eels. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Darwin read Wallace’s paper and, at least initially, didn’t see it as either interesting or evolutionary. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z It also wouldn’t explain grief, which makes no sense from an evolutionary standpoint yet it’s a phenomenon you see throughout the natural world. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Our favorite plant carnivores turned to meat because their chosen evolutionary niche — soggy and acidic peatlands, for the most part — didn’t provide enough soil nutrients. These stunning plants all have one thing in common: A taste for blood 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z IN a world where men sport permanent stubble on their faces, the capacity to grow a thick, bristly beard in just 48 hours can be considered an evolutionary advantage. Skin Deep: Stubble Trimmers Give Men the After-5 Look 2011-09-28T19:59:03Z Triggered by a deep recognition of our proximity on the evolutionary tree, I simply felt warmth and affection. Climbing Over Rocks, Holding on to Vines and Then, at Last, Gorillas 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z These evolutionary traits of aggression and tribalism can’t be wiped out by a few generations of centrally heated life. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z She was no lightweight — first an evolutionary biologist, then a general practitioner and made a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1973. Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’ 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The evolutionary origins of optimism This article is an adapted excerpt from the new book "Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain" from Basic Books. The evolutionary origins of optimism 2012-06-12T00:01:00Z Is this when I was supposed to bridge the divide, while picking up the trash spilled on my kitchen floor and while she was being evolutionary? When Dinner Proves Divisive: One Strategy, Many Dishes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z DNA from the bone also allowed scientists to “recalibrate” the genetic clock used to estimate rates of evolutionary change. Long tail: dogs may have lived with humans for 30,000 years 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This makes it sound as if a designer was responsible for our wiring, but evolutionary psychologists would reject this notion. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z We turn to a discussion of Dawkins’s major arguments against the existence of God: the no-arguments argument, his evolutionary argument, and his complexity argument. Can we prove that God exists? Richard Dawkins and the limits of faith and atheism 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Existential despair leads to consciousness and examining the despair and consciousness leads to meta-consciousness--the evolutionary step that humans are taking now--since about 1850. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z In other words, luxury is increasingly looking outside its own walls for inspiration and expertise, the latest evolutionary adaptation of an industry faced with unprecedented change. Fashioning a New Kind of Luxury Ecosystem 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “It will be another sociobiological thriller based on certain patterns of evolutionary human behavior,” she said. With ‘Where the Crawdads Sing,’ a Debut Novel Goes Big 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z As is true of evolutionary states, mental states are punctuated. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z And his work laid the foundations for a new field of science called molecular phylogeny that has delivered astounding insights about evolutionary history. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z It is therefore an evolutionary accident that we have the social needs we do. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z We should remember, too, Sheikh says, that our immediate feelings towards someone are dominated by evolutionary instinct. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z I would probably be doing some kind of research in some specific field of evolutionary biology. Lisa Kudrow dishes out some "Web Therapy" 2011-07-17T15:34:02Z Blending data from archaeology to evolutionary biology, this rollicking study investigates how DNA links us to our ancestors. New in Paperback: ‘Sticky Fingers,’ ‘Lea’ 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Therefore, if our goal is to have a good and meaningful life, we will periodically take steps to override our evolutionary programming. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z A likely explanation is that in our evolutionary history, violence was a significant enough threat to fitness that everyone had to understand how it works. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z For now, the scientists behind the ammonium chloride study plan to explore the OTOP1 receptor’s response to ammonium chloride, hoping to uncover more about its evolutionary significance. Scientists suggest a sixth basic taste: ammonium chloride 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Technology is part of our lives and it will become part of our evolutionary journey, too. ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Anna Lembke, an addiction expert at Stanford University, explains that these companies exploit the brain’s evolutionary need for interpersonal connection. ‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Unplug and Run 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z The evolutionary mismatch hypothesis suggests several approaches for reducing anxiety: Disconnect occasionally from electronic devices, move more — preferably in nature — sleep enough and without distractions, and prioritize in-person time with friends and family. Could our efforts to avoid anxiety only be making it worse? 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z From an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense – cortisol is released when we enter survival mode, a time when it would be particularly unhelpful to be distracted by sex. 'Step away from the porn': how to have hot sex at every age 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z “Cool Jobs,” on Sunday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, gathers a roboticist, archaeologists, an astronaut and an evolutionary biologist to talk about their careers. Spare Times for Children for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Eating disorders, the author writes, could be “evolutionary relics of a time when our food supply was unpredictable”. Shape-shifting 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z By the early noughties, psychologists, behaviourists and evolutionary biologists had got their teeth into it, and started to investigate variability in preferences for masculinity. Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z Madoff got away with his betrayals for years because his lies were wrapped in truth — he was at one time a respected New York financier — and he leveraged a basic evolutionary trait. What made George Santos lie so much? Experts weigh in on his deception. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z They would have seen the evolutionary connections of these similar species and wondered where their ancestors had lived, and how the descendants had ended up in different areas. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z Having said this, I should add that although an abiding concern with their position on the social hierarchy helped our evolutionary ancestors survive and reproduce, this is no longer the case. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z “This is interesting, possibly groundbreaking work, particularly their evolutionary approach and the link to metabolism,” said Dorian Haskard, professor of cardiovascular medicine and rheumatology at Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study. Genetic mutation made humans susceptible to heart attacks – study 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Established to identify and study new species of plants, they are used more commonly today by botanists to examine the evolutionary relationships among plants. Perspective | Dead plants’ evolutionary secrets might save the planet, or at least take its pulse 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z What makes Pierre a towering modernistic figure is that he has managed in his life to move between revolutionary moments and evolutionary moments. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z But genetic and evolutionary thinking have moved on. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z But in more than 30 books he also explored topics as varied as evolutionary ethics, psychic phenomena, logic, education, crime and egalitarianism. Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z Spiders, though, which evolved more than 300 million years ago as part of the arachnid class, seem to display unusual visual coherence, despite their evolutionary age and variations in size, coloration and appendages. Exhibition Review: ‘Spiders Alive!’ at American Museum of Natural History 2012-07-27T21:25:49Z Some theories speculated that modern humans were more intellectually equipped, were better able to hunt in groups, had broader diets or a variety of evolutionary advantages. Neanderthals may not have been so unintelligent after all 2014-05-01T21:00:00Z This evolutionary process culminated in 1992's Protector, which held two blades wrapped in tiny wires so that you couldn't cut yourself. Kenneth Grange: A very British modernist 2011-07-19T16:08:16Z More evolutionary failures, please, just for the sake of emotional variety. Television Review | 'Life': On Discovery, Wonders of Nature, With Oprah Winfrey 2010-03-19T23:31:00Z On a deep evolutionary level, humans enjoy dangerous activities: hitting each other, driving quickly round corners, careering down snowy mountainsides attached to slidey pieces of wood, giving one another pieces of their mind. I love not driving, and instinct tells me I'm a safer man for it 2012-12-23T00:07:58Z In a subsequent treatise, “Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History,” McNeill expanded on this theme, albeit without explicitly noting its evolutionary dimension. We’re wired to sing 2012-07-07T19:00:00Z In the former category would be your evolutionary biology, your professional basketball strength-training regimens, your automotive safety laws. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z “Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span,” Timothy Leary, the psychedelic drug guru and a friend of Mr. Giger’s, once said. H. R. Giger, Artist Who Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, Dies at 74 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Kopplin found a Louisiana school principal who claimed it’s because scientists are “sinful men” seeking to justify their own immorality, and another Florida school teaching that evolutionary theory is “the way of the heathen.” 11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s school children 2013-03-13T16:34:00Z They remain of interest to evolutionary biologists because of their mixture of worm and arthropod characters and because they were among the first walking terrestrial animals. New to Nature No 47: Peripatus solorzanoi 2011-07-16T23:06:03Z In evolutionary terms, we worked for our sugar fix by eating honey and ripe fruit. Is there such a thing as sugar addiction? 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z “Modern Family” is a smart show — Phil quotes evolutionary psychology, Cam and Mitchell have primitive art on the walls. This Life: What ?Modern Family? Says About Modern Families 2011-01-21T21:20:03Z “I really think they represent a unique evolutionary legacy,” Brenkman says, “one worthy of protection.” Our deep lakes incite curiosity and conjure legends 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Such ideas are anathema to modern evolutionary theorists. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z "It's an evolutionary step. No matter what, we just want to train the young audience to come here, period." L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z No one would call it a huge leap on the evolutionary ladder, but the animated sequel “The Croods: A New Age” is slightly funnier than its serviceable 2013 predecessor. ‘The Croods: A New Age’ Review: More Civilized 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It's as if beauty had merely been an evolutionary phase. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z In evolutionary terms, this may be useful if it’s you who’s been injured, since it might stop you from losing blood. Why some people can’t cope with the sight of blood | Daniel Glaser 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z The iguanas and boas evolved in the Caribbean over perhaps 30 million years; the hutias began their evolutionary journeys about 10 million years ago. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z In it, he examined the arts through the lens of evolutionary psychology, asking, What are the cognitive reasons that painting or music or literature takes the form it does? Denis Dutton, Philosopher, Dies at 66 2011-01-01T03:57:45Z Beauty, rather, forms the foundation of an entire, complex evolutionary dynamic — one that can influence how we treat each other. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z If we look to the natural world, we see that sexual changes in other species are not only common but pivotal to the evolutionary success for many creatures. Jamie Brisick describes Peter Drouyn's journey to 'Becoming Westerly' 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z He agrees that it’s likely we will discover so-called proto-forms of human thought in other species, and that this is exactly what we would expect with an evolutionary process. Does Autism Hold the Key to What Makes Humans Special? 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “This is a great example of the way in which it doesn’t make sense to test evolutionary psychology principles with contemporary college students,” said Dr. Diamond, when asked to comment on the findings. Studied: Lipstick on Her Collar? Men Say, ?O.K.? 2011-02-25T18:00:07Z “In the evolutionary past, fat and dense energy in the form of sugar were in short supply,” Kaplan said. Tsimané of the Bolivian Amazon have world's healthiest hearts, says study 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Shori's black skin is a sought-after evolutionary advantage, which could protect her species from the sun, which runs counter to racist constructions of white superiority. Three essential tales of black vampirism 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z There are also some evolutionary advantages for enjoying the mouth-puckering sensation. What’s behind America’s pickle craze? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Do other, mainstream science museums replicate the disingenuity of the Creation Museum to evolutionary ends? A look inside the Creation Museum's cabinet of curiosities 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The wonderfully named but factually dubious “stoned ape theory” posits that great evolutionary leaps were made when early humans ingested psilocybin. A Strait-Laced Writer Explores Psychedelics, and Leaves the Door of Perception Ajar 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z “Man’s great evolutionary advantage is the creation of tools,” Trufelman says. The Best Podcasts of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Grade describes all these stops along a sculpture's evolutionary cycle as "moments." Art of decay: John Grade's fascinating sculptures crave disintegration 2011-05-29T01:58:15Z He hammers home the message that nerves, hormones, genes, developmental experiences and evolutionary pressures must necessarily all be understood, and that none of the relationships between such factors and any behavior is straightforward. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z This includes even the fictional Mister Monkey: part children’s book hero, part evolutionary reminder of true humanity, part Hindu god. High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The simple evolutionary explanation is that women are worth fighting for. The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – review 2013-06-13T11:00:01Z It’s actually a minority of guys who want multiple short-term partners — that even comes up in the evolutionary research. Expert: Guys don’t want casual sex! 2012-11-18T02:00:00Z So I think that's where the evolutionary idea becomes more of a check on some of this. Love local and sustainable food? In the future data will drive more decisions than desire 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Now, thanks to the work of crystallographers, evolutionary changes and relationships could also be revealed by examination of internal appearances. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z Despite Chaucer's masculine pronoun, it's well-known that, in the bird kingdom as well as elsewhere, the hens usually make such important decisions, and their judgement, with good evolutionary reason, is based on looks. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z He is skeptical of those who might regard human life as a step on an evolutionary ladder between the apes and a futuristic race of star children. Review: In Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K,’ Daring to Outwit Death 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Wright, the author of “The Moral Animal,” draws on evolutionary psychology and neuroscience to make his case, weighing the advantages of mindful meditation and how it can potentially benefit humanity. New in Paperback: ‘Why Buddhism Is True,’ ‘The End of Eddy’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The most important is that species evolve by natural selection, the bedrock idea of evolutionary biology proposed by Charles Darwin. When the Aliens Arrive, What Will They Look Like? A Zoologist Has Answers 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Imagine an evolutionary psychology explanation of why we go to a beautiful Japanese restaurant. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z Might there be an evolutionary basis to this reaction to receiving the cancer diagnosis? Motherlode: Becoming My Grandmother 2011-02-16T21:15:46Z PG: Speaking of losers, I read an article by an evolutionary biologist that said gossip is great for preventing bad behavior. Table For Three: A Conversation With Liz Smith, Gossip Columnist and Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People Magazine 2014-04-25T22:08:35Z But an evolutionary anomaly I still am because every day I find myself fighting against the basest of animal instincts that has allowed our species to survive thousands of years: the instinct to live. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z But according to evolutionary biologist Karen Hardy and her colleagues, carbohydrates played an essential role in the developing of bigger brains. What leaders of the Paleo diet movement think – and why they're wrong 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z There was the evolutionary leap forward from Etsy-style patchwork to globalized sophistication at Bode. New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Darwin was a leading figure of the Victorian scientific establishment, and is justly celebrated for his lifelong study of the evolutionary mechanism. Alfred Russel Wallace by Tim Flannery 2011-02-26T00:07:55Z He never quite came out and said species A gave rise to species B. Some readers got the evolutionary message; others didn’t. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z Fellow researcher Nicholas Christakis, a Yale University professor of sociology, evolutionary biology and medicine, said the mechanism used by people to choose friends with similar genetics remained a mystery. If your friends feel like family, there's a good reason for it 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z My answer, of course, involves the evolutionary hack that conflates infantile, maternal, and sexual love. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z We are evolutionary biologists who study how cooperation and conflict occur inside the human body, including the ways cancer can evolve to exploit the body. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z First, to explain in the only way possible—as the result of thousands and thousands of incremental evolutionary advances—the great biological complexity we see around us. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z VT: Out of all of the ways in which believers have tried to reconcile evolutionary biology and the Christian tradition, which seem to you the most robust or credible? Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z The cultures of the world came to be seen as a living museum in which individual societies represented evolutionary moments captured and mired in time, each one a stage in the imagined ascent to civilisation. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z The evolutionary psychologist and anthropologist Robin Dunbar is fond of the term homophily — “love of the same” — to describe why certain people strike up friendships. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z This is a relatively sudden change in the rate of evolutionary change. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z For much of our evolutionary past, such calorie-dense foods were rare treats that would have provided much needed sustenance, especially in dire times. Junk food is tricking your brain: The depressing science behind your binging 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z He adds, "Alternatively, our penchant for cheese may have evolutionary roots in its psychoactive properties; the mood-enhancing effects of casomorphins could have conferred survival advantages under stressful or challenging conditions." Is cheese actually addictive? Here's the real science 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z This fascinating exploration into consciousness combines evolutionary biology, philosophy and stunning photographs, with lots of remarkable cephalopod facts. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z And the renowned ecologist Guy McPherson argues that humanity will follow the dodo into the evolutionary grave by 2026. It’s the end of the world and we know it: Scientists in many disciplines see apocalypse, soon 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z After a nasty academic battle with some evolutionary psychologists, he proclaimed, “Listen to evolutionary psychologists long enough, and you’ll stop believing in evolution.” The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z War, too, for all of its brutality and ugliness, satisfies some of our deepest evolutionary yearnings for connectedness. Review: Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’ Examines Disbanded Brothers Returning to a Divided Country 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Today, evolutionary anthropology is at the least seeking to explain the moral basis of life — though that might not explain everything about the purpose of life and the meaning of life. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z Don’t beat yourself up for falling prey to evolutionary instincts. Feeling Socially Rusty? Try a Little Light Gossiping. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The evolutionary biologist explores the strange kinship between humans and some insects. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Making that feel good by stimulating the nerves at the end would be the next logical evolutionary step. Secrets of T-rex sex! 2012-10-28T00:30:00Z Legions of insects, sea creatures and ancient fossils are lining up in a new museum shaped liked a giant Noah's Ark, telling the story of a crucial evolutionary byway across Israel. Ark-shaped museum to show evolutionary crossroads in Israel 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “History is far more important than evolutionary theorizing as a reminder about human potential,” Wrangham protests. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The idea of being mocked, ridiculed, rejected by the people around us was at one point that our evolutionary history a matter of life or death. Here’s why Tinder makes you happy — until it makes you miserable 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet others regard the accelerating pace as only natural, even evolutionary. Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Publishers might find Mosley's novel instructive right now, not least for its brilliant imagining of an evolutionary process completed within a single generation. Will the iPad change books? 2010-05-28T10:53:00Z In each of those cases, the album was an evolutionary step for the artist in question, and also for pop music more broadly. How Streaming, Exclusives and the Chainsmokers Made 2016 a Disruptive Year for Pop 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It is possible to explain in evolutionary terms, though. Why don’t women know what men find attractive? 2014-04-26T22:30:00Z The vagaries of female fertility and its curtailment long before many of us are ready or in need of saying goodbye to the possibility of parenting is an evolutionary frustration. My friend told me not to freeze my eggs and now I'm childless 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z But in pure evolutionary terms, even the pretentious, over-the-top, foolishly self-indulgent forms of haute macho beat butting heads. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z You don’t buy many of evolutionary psychology’s explanations regarding love and sex. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z The fact that rather more men are, say, teachers than serial murderers is a bit awkward for his evolutionary stance. The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – review 2013-06-13T11:00:01Z But at a time when many educated whites believed that blacks had separate evolutionary origins, Smith also argued that racial differences were purely due to environment, and even advocated interracial marriage. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z An early chapter, for instance, wonders if suicide should be viewed as an evolutionary adaptation. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change THE defining document of hip-hop’s current evolutionary state isn’t a song, or a music video or a concert. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z She's fascinated by Darwin and memorizes details about seabirds and insects, as if trying to put the impending end of her short life into a greater evolutionary perspective. Cannes: Gus Van Sant's emo remake of "Love Story" 2011-05-13T18:14:00Z This region, known as the orbitofrontal cortex, is now thought to be a secondary emotion center, supplementing the more primitive emotions of the limbic system, the second-oldest evolutionary band of human neural territory. Touring the brain 2012-09-01T20:00:00Z What Bradshaw is keen to stress, though, is the unique evolutionary pact between humans and dogs: we have programmed into them a deep need for relationships with humans, which we must treat with respect. In Defence of Dogs by John Bradshaw ? review 2011-07-08T21:56:01Z The discovery that Rachel is a graduate student, at another university, specializing in evolutionary biology, Zelda’s field of research, shifts the focus firmly toward the professional. | 'The How and the Why': Student Meets a Mentor She Has Met Before 2011-01-18T22:30:20Z What’s wrong with the evolutionary arguments about boys and men wanting to spread their seed? Expert: Guys don’t want casual sex! 2012-11-18T02:00:00Z You will be amazed at nature’s fantastical imagination and evolutionary inventiveness in shaping such arachnids. Exhibition Review: ‘Spiders Alive!’ at American Museum of Natural History 2012-07-27T21:25:49Z They were exhibited as evolutionary throwbacks: "If you examine their little fingers," claimed the publicity, "you will find that conformation such as to afford them astonishing prehensile power." Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z In evolutionary theory spandrels are biological features that exist simply as a kind of byproduct of the way organisms develop. Frame: Neil Goldberg Exhibition at Museum of the City of New York 2012-03-02T00:33:51Z An evolutionary step is rarely the product of one person working in isolation; it is one brick added atop hundreds of others. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z At that stage it could have no evolutionary value otherwise. Diamondbacks 1, Story 0 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “There are 15,000 moth species in the U.S.,” said Bruce Walsh, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona at Tucson. 2010-01-28T05:13:00Z What Jurassic World’s colossal success really tells us is that the monster movie has taken a giant evolutionary leap. Jurassic World and Ted 2: an evolutionary leap for animal rights? 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Male nipples are an evolutionary side effect of female lactation. What is the female orgasm for? Science, gender bias, and the “upsuck” theory that won’t go away 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z This interesting piece of neural architecture appears to be one of the evolutionary adaptations that allow us to rely so heavily on spoken language for communication. Your dog can tell from your voice if you’re happy or sad 2014-02-21T13:00:00Z Their evolutionary job is to correct our mistakes, to ignore our hard-won wisdom and to replace us, whether or not we’re ready. Review: In ‘While We’re Young,’ a Coupling of Gen X and Y 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z His monsters, meanwhile, were informed by science, and seemed to hail from the evolutionary past. The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z This development conferred evolutionary benefits that ultimately led to the dominance of Homo sapiens today. Shaped by water 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The opening of the Broad this month will mark a major evolutionary leap forward in this long, sometimes agonized process. As the Broad museum opens, a broader look at Grand Avenue development 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z In two papers in The Quarterly Review of Biology, we explored the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of throwing in humans. How humans became the best throwers on the planet 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z By examining emotions in both, this book puts these most vivid of mental experiences in evolutionary context, revealing how their richness, power and utility stretch across species and back into deep time. Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’ 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The same evolutionary process has shaped patriotic music in the United States. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z At any rate, light’s evolutionary value is complicated. Exhibition Review: ?Creatures of Light? at American Museum of Natural History 2012-03-29T21:26:33Z It's an evolutionary process and we feel the new year is a good time to have a fresh look at the format. Jeremy Vine to step down as Panorama presenter 2010-12-13T00:04:00Z One of the elementary principles of evolutionary biology is environmental adaptation. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z This is a perennial objection to one or another aspect of evolutionary theory: it has no business being true, so it isn’t. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Warner taps evolutionary biologists to suggest why kids this age might perceive something as common as rejection by a friend as “a threat to their very survival.” Traumatized by Memories of Middle School? You Are Not Alone 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z They will illustrate raptors’ role in the ecosystem and the evolutionary adaptations that have made them superb predators, like strong talons, high-speed flight and excellent vision. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z To take evolutionary psychology seriously implies that having a private self was either advantageous or, at the very least, not problematic for our ancestors. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z After evolutionary computation cracked the walls of Suominen’s information silo, his curiosity and training as an engineer took over. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z Jonathan Gottschall, who has written extensively about using evolutionary theory to explain fiction, said “it’s a new moment of hope” in an era when everyone is talking about “the death of the humanities.” Next Big Thing: Literary Scholars Turn to Science 2010-03-31T22:36:00Z It is the oldest evolutionary part of your brain, but it is not the part of your brain that needs to be in charge. Embrace doing nothing, especially if you're working from home 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z These recent dramatic changes are the heft of Williams’ book, although she also covers evolutionary basics, like why we have them, what they’re made of and how they work. A night at the vibrator museum 2012-05-20T00:00:00Z Then, after the discovery of DNA’s structure in 1953, scientists began tracing the evolutionary history of life through its shared genetic code. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Mister Monkey, that evolutionary evidence of our past, is also Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god who can see into the future. High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Religious casts are aestheticized and then shoehorned into an evolutionary narrative. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z Whatever are the evolutionary and physiological roots of one's liking sugar, the fact is that sweets are pervasive in all the human societies. Yotam Ottolenghi: Eat Your Sugar 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z For answers, I turned to Brian Hare, an evolutionary anthropologist who studies behavior at the Canine Cognition Center at Duke. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-11T22:23:16Z And I really do mean the beginning: thousands of years ago, in our evolutionary past, a time when our current psychology was starting to take shape. Let's celebrate the art of the glow-down 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The album’s other tracks set up their own repetitive systems and evolutionary whims; some even change chords. Music: Music by Crooked Fingers, Cave, Kathryn Calder and Jane?s Addiction 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z Quammen’s sprawling history of evolutionary genetics ranges widely in its answer to that question. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Dawkins does make an interesting point: to whom do we accord “humanness”? But he skirts the main issue: To what extent can evolutionary theory answer this question? Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z Evolutionary psychologists would also remind us that the evolutionary process is imperfect. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z These findings jibe with the research of Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford. Are My Friends Really My Friends? 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z This is Jay London, a comic whose best-known joke is, “You might recognize me, I’m the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.” Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Given that birds, mammals and molluscs evolved independently, this suggests that some level of intellect is a natural outcome of evolutionary pressures. The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies | Book review 2010-03-28T00:15:00Z Agassiz was a prolific and influential scientist and teacher, but his racist beliefs and his opposition to evolutionary theory tarnished his image. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Legacy of Louis Agassiz 2013-02-01T17:48:53Z “Turtles took a long time,” Mr. Young said, alluding to their evolutionary history, “to become stabilized, to become these incredibly continuous and ongoing creatures, and we were creating sound that had to do with permanence.” The Secret Muse of the Downtown Scene? Turtles 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z From an evolutionary point of view, natural selection favours traits that increase our individual reproductive success. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z There could be an evolutionary element, he says. Feeling lonely? Why a good night’s sleep might be the ultimate cure 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Wilson, a giant of evolutionary biology, describes his first explorations of nature in the swamps of Alabama. The 1,328-Page Novel That Captivated the Primatologist Frans de Waal 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z By trying to gather together all the information on all the animal species in the world, he was asking questions about species diversity and adaptation that would lead later scientists to evolutionary speculations. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z We chalk up a lot of our romantic decisions to evolutionary biology, but the truth is our partner choice is highly influenced by social expectations and ideals. Diet advice and tiny seats: how to avoid 10 forms of fatphobia 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z From an evolutionary perspective, these psychogenic or “cerebrally elicited” erections are a savvy improvement on the reflexogenic type. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z It proved a very influential idea and other scientists are now thinking about how robots might adopt a random – almost an evolutionary – way of fixing themselves using what are known as genetic algorithms. My bright idea: Dennis Shasha: Nature can improve our computers 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z The scientists explain the evolutionary adaptations that enable sperm whales to dive to potentially crushing depths, along with other interesting tidbits. | 'Inside Nature?s Giants': ?Inside Nature?s Giants? on PBS - Review 2012-01-17T23:29:39Z A striking work of speculative fiction, it depicts – in terms sometimes hopeful and other times cautionary – a future of alien contact, interplanetary travel, conscious machines and even the next great evolutionary leap of humankind. “2001: A Space Odyssey” still has insight on future decades later 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z There is a symmetry-breaking gene, originating long ago in the branching evolutionary tree. Shell company 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z An equally important element of that theory is domestication, which turns out to be a crucial category for interpreting the human evolutionary past. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z For an evolutionary biologist, that question is normally equivalent to asking, What adaptive purpose did they serve? Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z On the other side were those who marshaled “evolutionary, neurological and psychiatric reasons why the theory had to be wrong.” The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Earlier explanations point to evolutionary psychology: Just as the peacock struts its plume, the male human cracks jokes to attract the fairer and less funny sex. Studied: Seriously, Men Only Think They?re Funnier - Studied 2011-11-11T20:37:36Z “I took students to museums and saw that all the museums were totally from an evolutionary perspective,” he says. A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z But let’s face it: There’s an evolutionary advantage to vanity. Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup? 2014-01-04T23:00:00Z They’re just on a different level of the evolutionary scale than the feces throwers in the Republican debate.” Bill Maher slams the “feces throwers in the Republican debate”: Democrats are “on a different level of the evolutionary scale” than them 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z In a 1981 interview with the Tribune, one player described the pressure to compete without gloves as “an evolutionary ritual.” Gloves off 2012-08-10T23:30:00Z She noted that there are evolutionary and biological reasons that sound sources coming from behind and above listeners can be unsettling or anxiety inducing. Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.) 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Though Eiland and Jennings arrange Benjamin’s life and work into not just chronological but a rough evolutionary order, they never argue that this evolution gestures toward any particular region of the postwar intellectual landscape. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z But six billion years of evolutionary common sense is keeping my pupils dilated to a steady panic. Cliff camping in Colorado: postcards from the ledge 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z I won’t go into details about evolutionary biology. My aim will simply be to lay out Darwin’s theory as a general model for the kind of cognitive theory I wish to propose for mental function. Sex’s feel-good evolution: Charles Darwin’s erotic shocker 2014-03-09T20:00:00Z This sexual selection,as Darwin called it, this taste for beauty rather than brawn, constituted an evolutionary mechanism separate, independent, and sometimes contrary to natural selection. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Except that for Field, standing in the Belasco and reciting the words of Tennessee Williams was always the evolutionary stage on which she had her sights. Perspective | Sally Field, on Broadway and on a mission 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The notion that evolutionary success puts an end to the need for "complex beauty" clearly has sinister overtones in the poem. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z But Dominic Johnson argues in “God Is Watching You”, belief in God—specifically, in supernatural forces that can punish—is a useful evolutionary adaptation. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Existential despair leads to consciousness and examining the despair and consciousness leads to meta-consciousness--the evolutionary step... ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Researchers associate the level of threat with “agency detection,” which evolutionary psychologists explain as adaptive mechanisms that protect us from harm/enemies. Why creepy men scare us: That “ew” factor is a built-in warning bell 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z While malarkey's history is shaded, meme's roots are easily traced to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, a Brit who coined the term for a unit of cultural inheritance, not unlike genes and DNA. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z Images in the movie channeled evolutionary theory and abstract art, depicting roaring dinosaurs, vibrating shapes and dancing brooms. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Our evolutionary biology then dictates what our culture sees as the ideal male form. The science behind our obsession with hot soccer players 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There may seem a long evolutionary road between a bunk-up on a branch and a walk down the aisle. My friend says he is in love with me. Should I give it a go? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Nature rewards behaviour that promotes success in animals because of its evolutionary advantages, but this underlying reason for the reward doesn't stop these successful behaviours themselves being enjoyable. Happy animals: the joy beyond the struggle to survive - in pictures 2011-07-25T08:45:47Z What all these commenters call self-indulgence or attention seeking is actually a protective evolutionary trait in some of us that cannot be turned off. When Dinner Proves Divisive: One Strategy, Many Dishes 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Science presenter Michael Mosley attempts to codify matters slightly, noting that evolutionary reasons for both states exist. Tonight's TV highlights: No Ordinary Family 2011-01-25T00:05:01Z Granted, buttspeak does seem a very dark horse in the vocal evolutionary sweepstakes, but looking at the possibilities of this option of speech origin is informative. Passing gas is an art and science 2012-08-23T00:00:00Z Before that, as a doctoral student, he spent months grubbing around in the dust and fly-ridden central Australian deserts in search of fossil fragments that would illuminate vast gaps in the continent's evolutionary record. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z By exploring species and assembling comprehensive natural history collections, we ensure that scientists have access to the evidence needed to refine our understanding of evolutionary history. New species top 10 2010-05-23T16:38:00Z The changes tend to be evolutionary, drawing from a fixed repertoire of ideas. Some Food, a Plate, a Room. That’s Enough at King, in SoHo. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But underestimating a rustling in the undergrowth, which might conceal a predator, could be fatal, leading to evolutionary selection of a tendency to see agents everywhere. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z A team of European scientists used statistics and an evolutionary model to test both hypotheses, and their conclusion adds great certainty to the interbreeding hypothesis. New study shakes up evolution! Scientists confirm Neanderthal-human copulation 2014-04-09T17:45:00Z It’s rooted in evolutionary psychology and how people respond to those that appear to be close to them physically. “It’s making us feel like the opposition is evil”: How cable news hurts democracy — and how to fix it 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z The voice in “Mind Out of Matter” is that of the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who has proposed applying the principles of Darwinian evolutionary biology to human cultural evolution, and specifically to the history of religion. ‘Mind Out of Matter,’ From the Composer Scott Johnson 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z It turns out that education isn’t enough to fight ignorance, not when it comes to heavily politicized issues like evolutionary theory. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z Glyphosate use shot up, giving weeds the evolutionary force needed to develop resistance. Arsenic: It’s what’s for dinner 2012-10-08T13:52:00Z It's futile but nonetheless diverting to imagine that, if Hollywood's movers and shakers must persist with revisiting older movies, perhaps they might take that evolutionary step and truly radicalise the core ingredients of pre-existing movies. The Death at a Funeral remake should have died an early death 2010-04-16T11:16:00Z It’s an evolutionary imperative: a cruel, but near universal one, motivating them to leave the nest and us to eject them. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z The fossil record shows that relatives did indeed exist in the recent evolutionary past but went extinct. ‘Commercial’ vs. ‘Literary Writing,’ Cozy Mysteries and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z But there is, as his evolutionary thought experiment, Galapagos, shows, a little purpose, one that, at least in Vonnegut’s capable narrative, both we and our imaginary progeny share. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z A decade later, Brown’s son, Dana Brown, made “Step Into Liquid,” which documented another evolutionary step, “tow-in” surfing, in which riders use motorized assistance to catch huge, fast-moving waves. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z But Genesis is not interacting with evolutionary science. The Book of Genesis, part 3: Creation ? and afterwards 2010-12-27T10:00:05Z He also said the latest findings made sense from an evolutionary point of view. Should you let babies 'cry it out'? Debate reignited by new study 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Suppose that getting burned, rather than being detrimental to our evolutionary ancestors, had somehow increased their chances of surviving and reproducing. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z It is a long time since evolutionary psychology was served so neat. The Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine – review 2013-06-13T11:00:01Z To test this evolutionary premise, Mr. Aiden and Mr. Michel wound up inventing something they call culturomics, the use of huge amounts of digital information to track changes in language, culture and history. Books of The Times: ‘Uncharted,’ by Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel 2013-12-24T20:44:07Z Owen, for example, a religious believer opposed to evolutionary theory, believed that extinct and living species should occupy different wings. Darwin Center at the Natural History of Museum: London Museum Boldly Spreads Its Wings 2010-04-07T22:49:00Z The sole reviewer, responsible for the decision to accept or reject the article for publication, said that Ingleby and her co-author Megan Head, an evolutionary biologist at the Australian National University, needed more male input. Journal rejects female-authored study: “Find one or two male biologists to work with” 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Drawing on recent experiments, Neolithic burials, eclectic myths and global literature, Slingerland teases out the evolutionary advantages and enduring benefits of getting blitzed. A History of Getting Hammered, and Why Some of Us Should Keep Doing It 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of evolution, understood this, and as a result was "never scared of the implications of evolutionary theory". Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z For starters, making decisions based on experience is our evolutionary endowment. Perspective | When it comes to nutrition, we’re all too eager to ignore the evidence. Here’s why. 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Casner worries that our optimism about our own plans might be an insurmountable part of our evolutionary heritage. Be Careful! Your Mind Makes Accidents Inevitable 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z With “Electric Dreams” the format takes its next evolutionary step, with a new story and creative team for each episode. With ‘Electric Dreams,’ Philip K. Dick Gets the TV Anthology Treatment 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Pellegrino claims on his website www.charlespellegrino.com that the university stripped him of his PhD during a row over a evolutionary theory but it was later reinstated. Book on atom bomb horrors halted over false stories 2010-03-03T14:21:00Z More precisely, they are a consequence of our evolutionary past. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z He gave Harvard University $6.5 million to found a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program. Perspective | Jeffrey Epstein had many enablers. The most egregious was his wealth. 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The evolutionary advantage of the combination of aggression, a group distinguishable by its belief, and discrimination of others is clear. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z But the sound of a human scream is — perhaps for evolutionary reasons — difficult to tune out. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Although a range of strategies could be adaptive for dealing with some specific circumstances, on average, vigilance, caution, and readiness to flee at a moment’s notice would probably have had the greatest evolutionary payoff. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z Captive animals, lifted from the landscape and, thus, from their evolutionary destiny, strike him as uninteresting. What We Mourned When We Mourned Cecil 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The change in the art world is likely to be more evolutionary than revolutionary. For Cuban Artists, Bigger World Awaits After Restoration of Ties 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Instead, “Lieberman, drawing on his expertise and knowledge of the way evolutionary forces work, takes ideas that have been spun and spun again, often based on shaky information, and cracks them open.” New in Paperback: ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ and ‘The National Road’ 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Twain calls Roosevelt “the missing link,” i.e., the supposed evolutionary place-holder between the ape and Homo sapiens. Final volume shows why Twain wanted ‘Autobiography’ kept under wraps 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “Our paper provides the first road map of metabolism across the life span,” says study co-researcher Herman Pontzer, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and author of “Burn.” Perspective | Why scientists now say you can’t blame midlife weight gain on a slow metabolism 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Work was arranged in two chronological and implicitly evolutionary sequences, throughout 18 partitioned spaces. Two Exhibitions Re-examine the 1913 Armory Show 2012-10-28T04:27:18Z But a few years — even the four decades that separate the original “Planet of the Apes” from the brand-new “Rise” — are just a tick of the clock in evolutionary terms. film: Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today 2011-07-27T12:00:09Z But is it really comforting for parents of teenagers to embrace an evolutionary explanation for what remain, as Mr. Dobbs puts it, “trying, contrary or flat-out scary moments”? Motherlode Blog: The Evolving Teenage Brain 2012-05-03T19:19:31Z It was a matter of urgency, he thought, that people understand and accept evolutionary theory. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z They find an evolutionary purpose in an emotional bond. On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z According to evolutionary psychologists, our social needs—and, more generally, our psychological propensities—are the result of nature rather than nurture. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z A: If you look at my body of work, which is not very big, really, it took an evolutionary leap with “The Zookeeper’s Wife.” Known for her strong female characters, filmmaker Niki Caro says every tale is a ‘treasure’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Now this all sounds very lovely and creative and organic, but the point of the dandelion's evolutionary strategy is that most of its seeds fail. Writing in a dandelion future 2013-06-17T13:35:01Z “A wheel is turning. It’s turning a notch in the evolutionary wheel,” he said. After Globes, Women Declare Success. But What About the Men? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Men are programmed by evolutionary forces to increase the odds that their genes will survive in perpetuity and hence they are compelled to spread their seed. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z A century later, evolutionary biologists started thinking seriously about its implications for human behavior. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z With colleagues at Binghamton University, Mr. Wilson founded the Binghamton Neighborhood Project to use evolutionary theory, along with data collection, to improve the quality of life in his struggling city. Books of The Times: ?The Neighborhood Project? by David Sloan Wilson - Review 2011-08-31T22:00:25Z And when we do this, we are using a truly evolutionary ancient behaviour. Laughter on the brain: the science behind our sniggers 2012-07-03T16:43:37Z We have the ability to experience pleasure and pain because our evolutionary ancestors who had this ability were more likely to survive and reproduce than those who didn’t. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z The big question now is whether Darwin’s tree represents a fundamentally flawed conception of evolutionary history or is merely in need of revision. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Here is an encounter between ape and angel, at the beginning and end of the our long, halting evolutionary march. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The game board begins with the lowly jackal and ends with the regal lion: an evolutionary progress of sorts. Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z There are some biologists who insist that every single mark on a creature is there because it serves some evolutionary advantage. Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg - review 2012-02-10T08:59:00Z “But at this stage of evolutionary development, it seems that Greenwald’s agenda becomes all the more obvious.” 2010-02-16T23:30:00Z “Studies clearly show that there are social and wellbeing benefits to be derived directly from drinking alcohol, especially in relaxed social environments,” said the evolutionary biologist Professor Robin Dunbar of Oxford University. 10,000 years of cheers: why social drinking is an ancient ritual 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z No prizes for guessing that these are critics of his ultra-Darwinian take on evolutionary mechanisms, and those who are troubled by the "problem" of reconciling conscious experience and free will with a materialist ontology. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z I think maybe it has something to do with an evolutionary reflex to avoid swarming things. Michael Chabon: ‘I have a socialist approach to my regrets’ 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The saintly voices and visions that instruct her, a medieval farm girl, to don armor and drive the English from France are merely the “dramatization by Joan’s imagination” of the “evolutionary appetite.” Review: In Shaw’s ‘Saint Joan,’ a Sane and Sensible Martyr 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z While mainstream arists regarded beauty as more or less taboo for decades, it was science that showed how the beauty of patterns emerges from mathematics and evolutionary biology. Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg - review 2012-02-10T08:59:00Z Our innate preference for the taste of some foods over others is rooted in how the tongue and the brain became wired during our evolutionary history. Can we train our taste buds for health? A neuroscientist explains how genes and diet shape taste 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Sometimes the matchmaking is purely intellectual, as speakers bring evolutionary biology or astrophysics to first-timers who thought they had just come for the beer. Secret Science Club, Nerd Nite and Other Barroom Education 2012-01-05T18:20:29Z Stephen Jay Gould, an evolutionary biologist who was much loved for his popular writings, stepped into the debate by calling language a “spandrel”. You tell me that it’s evolution? 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Blurry and contorted in the scan-lines of the computer screen, they look like insects or underwater creatures in a nature documentary, perhaps in the throes of some evolutionary crisis which will wipe them out. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-24T22:10:02Z Some scientists have theorised that love has a biological basis, that it serves the evolutionary advantage of maintaining parental bonds. I <3 you: meet the NYU professor whose love course is becoming a phenomenon 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z If this is so, she hopes to confirm a daring hypothesis about the possible evolutionary purpose for widespread, but hidden, female infidelity among humans. Review | ‘Theory of Bastards’ is a feminist novel, but not the one you’re expecting 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Kraus said that might be an evolutionary hangover, noting that it was easier for animals such as salamanders to regenerate a part of a limb that is further away from their core – like a digit. Our 'inner salamander' could help treat arthritis, study finds 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Madagascar, sitting approximately 225 miles off the Eastern Coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, is so isolated it's seen one-of-a-kind evolutionary developments. World's Most Unique Travel Destinations 2010-12-15T16:00:00Z Even though these losses were counter-balanced by many gains, the evolutionary being in me wants to mitigate the effects of those losses on future generations. Motherlode: Becoming My Grandmother 2011-02-16T21:15:46Z Female climax – in humans and, if it exists, in animals – has been viewed by many evolutionary psychologists as a biologically meaningless by-product with no effect on reproduction. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z Twitter is dynamic, it's evolutionary, conversations evolve, they've got a pulse to them. The future of music: technology is amazing, but 'music's a human thing' 2013-06-15T23:05:20Z He continues his lifelong research into fossil and evolutionary botany. Opening the door to a place of plants and privilege 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z In recent years, the scientists and polemicists known as the New Atheists have been telling a certain type of evolutionary story. The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Evolutionary science cannot indicate to us the location of the point on the continuous evolutionary scale, which Dawkins believes is there, at which human consciousness arises. Science doesn’t disprove God: Where Richard Dawkins and new atheists go wrong 2014-04-19T15:00:00Z Developing better prediction, however, is only one side of the evolutionary arms race, because if your rivals can predict your behavior as well as you can theirs, where’s the advantage? Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z Was worrying beneficial, an evolutionary mind trick designed to prepare us for the worst? Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z If the environment of our evolutionary ancestors had been different, our social needs might also have been different. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z They avoided monumentality, however, as well as bravura brushwork and all notions of finish, masterly personality or evolutionary development. Raoul De Keyser, Belgian Abstract Painter, Dies at 82 2012-10-17T07:00:04Z One evolutionary response is for males to use greater size to control or coerce the female and curb her power over whether, with whom, and how often she will mate and reproduce. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Embedded in this showcase book of exotic plants and animals is a plea to preserve what's left of the planet's evolutionary history. 22 gift books for ardent readers 2011-12-01T20:30:48Z It made it out of scientific circles and into popular culture in the 1980s as sociobiology, and parts of it got recreated as evolutionary psychology in the 1990s. Expert: Guys don’t want casual sex! 2012-11-18T02:00:00Z Impartiality can thus be construed to be an evolutionary response that lets cooler heads prevail. Lashes and lashing out 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It’s still unclear what motivates an animal to save a drowning swimmer or protect a girl from kidnappers,or raise a lost child; it seems to defy evolutionary sense. Are wolves and lions man’s best friends? 2013-04-07T14:00:00Z Every year, the travel industry takes an evolutionary step forward, as companies offer up innovative solutions to the inevitable problems we face on the road. 11 Important Travel Trends of 2015 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Indeed, the evolutionary process is utterly indifferent to the quality of our life. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z So what the right does is reframe the issue, arguing that teaching evolutionary theory is a form of religious oppression, a direct attack on the beliefs of fundamentalists in the classroom. The Christian right’s twisted notion of religious freedom 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z At one point evolutionary biologist Simon Watt finds a giant python that had died of smoke inhalation in a warehouse fire. Screen burn 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z This murderousness resulted in an evolutionary pressure to be clever. Is it impossible to trust one another in the information age? 2013-01-21T12:45:00Z Cats abide by “none of the settled hierarchies that shape interactions among humans and their close evolutionary kin.” Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z His project is no less ambitious than to work out the evolutionary origins of subjective experience. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The scene reflects a moment in the evolutionary process when consciousness and awareness of others are evident. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The Effects of 'The Tree of Life' 2012-01-11T19:44:32Z “Uncommon People” really sings when Hepworth connects rock ’n’ roll’s evolutionary dots. Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Any anthropomorphism must be forgiven; it is impossible not to be struck by the humanoid nature of these neighbors on the evolutionary chain. Trekking With the Gorillas of Rwanda 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s “a mysterious thing that I want,” and it’s also an evolutionary mechanism — “A chromosomal raid/built by what we got built for” — that’s as much a compulsion as a joy. The Playlist: Feist Ponders ‘Pleasure,’ and Frank Ocean Delivers Another Surprise 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “My basic feeling has always been the opposite, that mankind is on the verge of an evolutionary leap to a higher stage.” Colin Wilson, Author of ‘The Outsider,’ Dies at 82 2013-12-12T17:03:34Z Instantly explosive when it was published in 1859, the book is still viewed as the keystone of evolutionary biology. From 25,540 Paper Fragments, How Darwin Himself Evolved 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Copernicus told us we weren't at the centre of the universe, Darwin told us we weren't masters of our evolutionary destiny, Freud told us we were at the mercy of unconscious impulses. Simon Garfield: a life in books 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z Mr Johnson has doctorates both in evolutionary biology, where most of the research in the belief instinct has been done, and political science. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Cells that are able to evade detection, avoid apoptosis and replicate quickly have an evolutionary advantage within the body over cells that behave normally. How microbes in food can impact your body’s defenses against cancer 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z “It’s an added benefit that they have such a unique and interesting evolutionary history.” An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Or they may argue that religious belief needs to be understood in terms of evolutionary biology. Richard Dawkins’ moralizing atheism: Science, self-righteousness and militant belief — and disbelief 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Many evolutionary biologists, however, including the author of this book, believe that this is wrong. Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk – review 2013-04-24T06:30:03Z “Far from being failures,” Brusatte writes, “they were evolutionary success stories.” When the Dinosaurs Reigned 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Is there something in our evolutionary make up, which lurks in the chaos underneath the carefully constructed order of our lives? The Oh Fuck Moment ? review 2011-08-17T18:30:01Z Putting an evolutionary spin on diet and exercise, Dr. Lodge argued that humans remained, from the physical point of view, hunters and gatherers who thrived when in motion and surrounded by others. Henry S. Lodge, Author of ‘Younger Next Year’ Books, Dies at 58 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z It is through this evolutionary process that human consciousness becomes individuated, and that the sphere of human desire moves beyond what is given to him to desire. For Rousseau, man is born free, but kept free only by compassion 2012-07-11T10:27:24Z He even suggested that it was an evolutionary advantage for children to believe. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The intuitive kind is “thinking without thinking,” explains Ralf Schmälzle, a biological psychologist at Michigan State University, and “is rooted in the evolutionary need to survive.” Why human brains are bad at assessing the risks of pandemics 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Little been unearthed in between these two time periods, until this jawbone, which scientists hope will help fill in the evolutionary gap. Oldest human fossil found in Ethiopia, predating others by 400,000 years 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Steven Pinker’s book The Sense Of Style draws on evolutionary theory to show you how to tailor your language to our millennia-old brains. When the pope offers writing advice, should you listen? | Oliver Burkeman 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z This second volume of the graphic version of Harari’s book about the evolutionary history of humans focuses on the agricultural revolution of 12,000 years ago. Newly Published, From Che Guevara to Sapiens 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Originally needed as a part of our evolutionary development, they enabled us to act swiftly and instinctively in the face of physical attacks in the wild. Why being wrong really hurts 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z More importantly for those wishing to see an evolutionary process at work within the technological advances of progress, it reveals how the short-term and the long-range have become closely related by the same factors. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Daniel Blumstein, chairman of the University of California, Los Angeles’ department of ecology and evolutionary biology, said risk management is a fact of life for field scientists. Was poisoning of biologist’s dog a warning from Calif. pot growers? 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “It’s just good everybody’s aware. I mean, out with the old, right? The old status quo can’t hold. There has to be these evolutionary leaps in what is acceptable.” Two years on, Hollywood reflects on #MeToo changes 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Thanks to our evolutionary past, we regard ourselves as participants in an ongoing battle for position on the social hierarchy. You’re such a jerk 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z And the landscape surveyed is remarkable, touching on emotion, sensation, evolutionary development, biological growth, neurotransmitters, even recent research into cyborglike innovations that merge brain and machine. Glimpsing the Brain?s Powers (and Limits) 2010-11-19T18:00:00Z Themain evolutionary explanation is that it permits female species to avoid being monopolised by a single dominant male. Do women’s periods synchronise when they spend time together? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Today, can we say that this role is filled by evolutionary anthropology? The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z Launched on "Africa Day" in an area named "The Cradle of Humankind," the exhibit coincides with the publication of a controversial paper that questions the widely-held view that humanity's evolutionary roots lay in Africa. Biggest exhibit of human-like fossils goes on display in South Africa 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Actually, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, using the term to describe a unit of cultural information analogous to a gene. From Big Little Lies to Love Island: are memes shaping TV? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s not so much a stand-alone track as a glimpse into some inexorable evolutionary process. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Returns Lovelorn, and Zack de la Rocha Returns Furious 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z When critics get to assessing a classic TV show, we have a weird tendency to turn into evolutionary biologists. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z The exhibition, organized by Mark Norell, the chairman and a curator of the museum’s paleontology department, consists of bite-size subsections that show the evolutionary links between dinosaurs and birds. Fine Feathered Fiends: ‘Dinosaurs Among Us’ at the American Museum of Natural History 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Is it through this evolutionary idea of furthering of the species, or through the competitiveness between the species? From duck vaginas to bumblebee sex: The amazing, overlooked science of genitals 2014-05-10T20:00:00Z But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making. Are animals in Hollywood films too human? 2013-04-25T18:30:01Z A primary assumption of the evolutionary model behind neo-Darwinism is that development can be traced back through a series of subtly incremental changes. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z In the midst of a major evolutionary shift to a righteously extended adolescence, we've been so lucky to have the immensely talented Dunham to spoon feed us her rich insights. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Mostly, it is fun to watch Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and to marvel at whatever divine or evolutionary miracle concentrated so much charisma in the two of them. Review: In ‘Focus,’ a Grifter (Will Smith) as Life Coach 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z That deep, palm-prickling fear is an evolutionary leftover – a baby monkey straying alone by night is probably a baby monkey snapped up in a lunge and a squeal by a grateful nocturnal carnivore. Darkness in literature: Jill Tomlinson's The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark 2012-12-13T10:55:10Z Caves, for instance, are not evolutionary dead ends but prompt new kinds of evolution to cope with an environment that lacks light. In ‘Life at the Limits,’ Extreme Creatures at American Museum of Natural History 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z There are good evolutionary reasons for this: The major threats to our ancestors were apprehended visually; so were their sources of food. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z “World on a Wire” marks an evolutionary leap in the partnership between Fassbinder and Mr. Ballhaus, who shot 15 Fassbinder films before going on to a Hollywood career with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Film: A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time 2010-04-04T03:02:00Z From an evolutionary perspective, the costs and benefits involved are not actually to the individuals but to their likelihood of reproducing. Review | Let’s face it, we all have the capacity to be mean. ‘Spite’ explores why that’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Internet addiction is just the next evolutionary step Topics: , , , Evolution, Reddit, , , , This piece originally appeared on Having trouble shutting down your computer? Internet addiction is just the next evolutionary step 2013-05-31T15:20:00Z The process is a testament to the resilience of the company’s style, but also to its evolutionary limitations. Dance Review: Pilobolus Dance Theater at Joyce Theater 2012-07-17T22:04:05Z Darwin thought that evolutionary change happened very slowly, as incremental genetic changes were passed down, over hundreds of thousands of generations, from parents to children. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z While all beings are related, Darwin intimated, it should be possible to classify all living things into distinct lineages of more closely related species — branches — based on their shared evolutionary histories. A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Nonetheless we're still different, as the reaction against evolutionary psychology is currently reminding us. One Life peddles one big lie 2011-07-25T12:53:39Z It’s essential to consider such practices in their specific cultural contexts, but evolutionary biology and neuroscience can yield insights into their cognitive underpinnings, contributing to a primary goal of the humanities, self-understanding. Letters to the Editor 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z “He’s a permanent fixture in our community,” said David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and professor at the institute who has become friends with McCarthy. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z An intriguing argument that deceit is a beneficial evolutionary “deep feature” of life. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z |
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