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"Here's a species that, of its own accord, has gone down an evolutionary cul-de-sac, " Packham told Radio Times magazine.

Evolutionary forces at workWHEN two drunken men fight over a woman, alcohol and stupidity may not be the only things at work.

The first nice thing about this evolutionary approach to morality is that it emphasizes the social nature of moral intuition.

He said increased use of SDRs should be thought of as an "evolutionary" step rather than a step towards "global monetary union" .

Economic evolution is not the same as biological evolution. But it is a member of the general class of evolutionary systems.

But a peaceful religious accommodation of evolutionary ideas is possible, Hameed insists.

What in the world of biology might be helpful at this juncture, to get us through this sort of evolutionary knothole that we're in?

Fitness In an evolutionary context, the ability of an organism to produce a large number of offspring that survive to a reproductive age.

And their desire to please may be evolutionary important to them, just as faking it might be to women.

But a more interesting way, the current way to take the long view, is to look at it in an evolutionary perspective.

He said that there have long been suspicions of a shared evolutionary basis for laughter, in a concept researchers call homology .

For instance, it's easy to come up with evolutionary explanations for our preferences after the fact, Conley said.

In fact, they might be due to the very nature of our evolutionary history.

She said she believed that the response had an evolutionary basis, as we subconsciously assume those who look like us must be relatives.

We do not know whether such an evolutionary process--with predictable stages, with known causes and effects--even exists.

Markets were supposed to shut down bad ideas in a gradual evolutionary process; what happened in 2008 was more like a mass extinction.

Life's transition from the sea to the land was perhaps as much of an evolutionary challenge as was the genesis of life.

The researchers looked at the non-human genomes first, seeking regions that had not changed much throughout evolutionary history.

This volume marks the beginning of what promises to be a fruitful conversation between evolutionary biology and social anthropology.

How the high levels of diversity arose in New Guinea in such a short evolutionary time scale is what I am trying to figure out.

But it all depends on the work of specialized cells called lymphocytes that have made a risky evolutionary gambit to mutate their own DNA.

Most projects that involve big brands tend to be evolutionary, in which case the history of the mark must be considered carefully.

Evolutionary psychologists, anthropologists and neurologists are hard at work trying to figure this out.

The fact that you continually face such challenges is an evolutionary process that allows you to overcome even greater ones.

The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

A taste for chilies has no deep meaning, no evolutionary value. It's just a taste for chilies.

It seems unclear to me that you need an evolutionary approach to explain some of the behaviors [discussed].

Sometimes it's easy to understand how an evolutionary change took place, but it's more difficult to understand why.

As a global optimization technique, Evolutionary Computation has been used for clustering by many scholars now.

He said he was on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough.

They have rethought the logic of insecticides, putting evolutionary theory at the centre, instead of a simple desire to destroy the enemy.

The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

That's fabulous for older women who seem to have been written off by evolutionary psychology.

Remember however that it has all been a part of your evolutionary path, as you have returned to the Light.

To begin with, he seems to have created a straw man that bears little relation to the true assumptions made by evolutionary psychologists.

FJ: Yeah, the evolutionary change and also for startups and well-established companies people might have different points of view on change.

They were then asked to rate which one from each pair was more likely to cheat, reports the journal Evolutionary Psychology.

These questions lead us to the next stereotype to be overturned by evolutionary psychology: "Beauty is only skin deep. "

In the next few posts, I will discuss each of these stereotypes which evolutionary psychological theory and research have shown to be false.

The meaning of political economy is evolutionary in its development, the integration of economics and politics has been a trend at present.

It would be very wise for an animal to weigh gains and losses from an evolutionary perspective.

Whatever the name, this is a power which is all-pervading, which does all the subtle works of living process, of evolutionary process.

We're still trying to explain and come to terms with what is the evolutionary advantage of this.

As a fierce critic of neo-classical economics, the evolutionary economics is called heterodox economics by mainstream economics.

Basically, the relationship between nature and humanity has been a problem running through the whole evolutionary history of mankind.

In an evolutionary sense, the finding also means that bacteria may be examples of how living creatures first learned to smell one another.

And a new study shows that our penchant for the more vertically inclined might have an evolutionary basis.

To see if he was right, biologists have reconstructed evolutionary history.

As an intelligent search and optimization method, Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) has a good future with a very variety of applications.

A "living fossil" of the species occur in a long-line forward evolution happened, was no evolutionary branches.

The introduction emphasized the thoroughly evolutionary nature of modern astrophysics.

The new iPad may seem like a modest, evolutionary upgrade, if you were only looking at the headlines.

When our ancestors began to imitate they let loose a new evolutionary process based not on genes but on a second replicator, memes.

The transform is the next step up the XML evolutionary ladder from merely processing XML data at the element and attribute level.

This vantage point seemed like a good place to look back up the evolutionary road that led from Ardi to us.

But well before all that happened, another event triggered a different burst of evolutionary activity.

"Change is in the air, " Besharov said in a recent interview. "The only question is whether it is catastrophic or just evolutionary. "

That, at least, is the philosophy of Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig.

Producing an evolutionary prototype means that you design, implement, and test a skeleton structure, or architecture, of the system.

The book is of quite academic nature and would be especially suitable for a reader with some background knowledge of evolutionary theory.

The Paleocene epoch was a time of dense forests and evolutionary experiments.

Today's technologies allow us to do evolutionary changes. Army After Next is going to be a revolutionary change.

The writer puts forward the concept of elastic manufacturing system according to the evolutionary law of modern manufacturing pattern.

Each lineage represents at least one separated management unit, or belongs to an evolutionary significant unit.

To explain the emergence of cooperation by natural selection has been a fundamental topic of evolutionary biology since Darwin.

Selling sex is said to be humankind's oldest profession but it may have deep evolutionary roots, according to a study.

We're sort of circumventing evolutionary programs that guide our behavior.

This suggests that, in evolutionary terms at least, twins are far from a curse.

Seen from the evolutionary history of a system history, the customary law is always the previous and vivid origin of mankinds legal system.

He acts in concert with his fellow spectators and descends two or three rungs on the evolutionary ladder.

For our evolutionary precursors out in the wild, the fight-or-flight response was a valuable survival mechanism.

These incomplete requirements call for a flexible modeling process and for techniques which are appropriate for evolutionary development.

If the earth ever looked too young for certain evolutionary developments to have occurred, the age was pushed back in the textbooks.

"I think, in all honesty, " he said, "we don't yet know which species was our earliest direct ancestor in the human evolutionary line. "

After all, it is the result of a very long evolutionary process and has been more or less the same everywhere since time immemorial .

Humanity is now at the last crossroad of the present segment in its evolutionary journey.

Yet she is not the kind of ancestor most modern evolutionary biologists would have been looking for.

In contrast, an OLAP system often spans multiple versions of a database schema, due to the evolutionary process of an organization.

And yet people are interestingly resistant to the idea of applying evolutionary thinking to thinking -- to our thinking.

Prof. Frank speculates that this loss aversion may have evolutionary roots.

Ascension is but one major step on your evolutionary path, and it will always continue as you rise up through the dimensions.

Their evolutionary rate does seem to have slowed down.

Just as each iteration mitigates project risk, each evolutionary release into production reduces organizational risk.

But the rapid growth of the aging population world-wide is turning evolutionary biology into a pressing topic of public health.

The question of why we grow old and die still divides evolutionary biologists.

He suggested this was an evolutionary strategy subtly programmed into human DNA.

And yoga is an individual's evolutionary journey as a sadhaka (seeker) from the body to the self.

That's a popular misconception that has plagued evolutionary thought from the beginning, and one Ardi should bury, once and for all.

Nonetheless, theory and research in evolutionary psychology have overturned a few stereotypes and shown them to be false.

In the case of an alliance contract, betrayal will be punished, and cooperation of both sides will be the evolutionary direction.

Nonetheless, theory and research in evolutionary psychology have overturned a few stereotypes and shown them to be false.

In the case of an alliance contract, betrayal will be punished, and cooperation of both sides will be the evolutionary direction.

Dr. McGowan and Dr. Marzluff believe that this ability gives crows and their brethren an evolutionary edge.

You implement the process by improving what you already have, one practice at a time in an evolutionary way.

Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation is one of the largest groups of ecologists and evolutionary biologists in the UK.

The author, in her discussion of evolutionary theory, thereby highlights population differences and variations.

After baffling biologists for decades, the female orgasm has resisted yet another attempt to explain its elusive evolutionary origins.

In this time period the dreams of those like Thoth are to be edited to allow for new sequences of evolutionary fulfillment to be born ahead.

The use of LED taillights is again visible, though the new 9-5's overall look seems to be conservative and evolutionary rather than radical.

In evolutionary biology, the phenomenon is called "assortative mating, " or "self seeking like. "

In evolutionary biology, the phenomenon is called "assortative mating, " or "self seeking like. "

Genetic algorithm is a form of evolutionary algorithm that uses a population of trial solutions to search the encoded space of interest.

It appears that the evolutionary process of the human species had been distorted long before arriving upon Earth in Sirius .

As a burgeoning evolutionary computation technology, swarm intelligence is now becoming a new research hotspot.

I have been studying romantic love for 10 years or so and have come to see it as an evolutionary adaptation.

Blind snake fossils are nearly nonexistent, so their evolutionary history has been a mystery.

The symbol of global conservation, he said, had lumbered down an evolutionary cul-de-sac.

They suggest that over evolutionary time the bumps could have evolved into the feather attachments that are found in modern birds.

Human culture is a decentralized evolutionary system if there ever was one.

It's just an evolutionary offshoot of TDD in which the word "test" is replaced by the word "should. "

It's just an evolutionary offshoot of TDD in which the word "test" is replaced by the word "should. "

At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a huge evolutionary shift because adults are getting so fat.

We are not the determined product of billions of years of evolutionary plotting and planning.

He becomes a theorist of biodiversity, evolutionary biology and biogeography, and one of the patron saints of conservation science.

That, at least, is the prevailing theory among evolutionary psychologists.

For any living creature, the evolutionary game involves obtaining resources to live long enough to procreate and rear its young.

At the time, its exact place in evolutionary history was unclear.

As for the left-eyed and right-eyed flatfish, their difference, however striking, appears to be an evolutionary red herring.

Human intelligence may be close to its evolutionary limit.

So, they suggest, it makes sense to think that the evolutionary point of human reasoning is to win arguments, not to reach the truth.

So, they suggest, it makes sense to think that the evolutionary point of human reasoning is to win arguments, not to reach the truth.

Their attraction to man-made electrical devices may be an accidental evolutionary byproduct of this natural ability.

Evolutionary stable strategies depend on their environment, and on any other ESS-es in that same environment.

Reincarnation was not the natural evolutionary process of the original human lineage, but it has been operational for over 5 million years.

OpenLeaks' website launch, set for this week, is being promoted as the next evolutionary step in classified document publishing.

Like fossils of whales with legs, Archaeopteryx seemed to capture a moment in a critical evolutionary metamorphosis.

From an evolutionary perspective, it also could be that plants haven't really needed to hear.

How can you manage evolutionary versions of an Encyclopedia during the lifecycle of your architecture development?

As for Spinosaurus, diet was just the tip of the evolutionary iceberg when it comes to this carnivorous curiosity.

The result of this plasticity is a developmental programme that is better able to cope with evolutionary changes, says Ingber.

The result of this plasticity is a developmental programme that is better able to cope with evolutionary changes, says Ingber.

If it works, it will be a good example of the value of thinking about biological problems from an evolutionary perspective.

Nevertheless, evolutionists have postulated an evolutionary tree of life showing how the various life forms developed.

Looking like an evolutionary descendant of the original 1964 model year 901, the Carrera Cabriolet is pure Porsche through and through.

How speciation occurred has always been an intriguing and mysterious issue to evolutionary biologists.

With any business cycle it's going to be evolutionary, but there is seldom excess with a total lack of fundamentals.

Embryological development does not reflect the mature stages of other distant branches of this evolutionary bush.

Evolutionary change results in essentially the same, albeit evolved, business value, and is thus a new version of a service.

Scientists study that in the long evolutionary process, smooth muscle occurs early, and skeletal muscles have the latest.

First, it informs us about historical relationships, thus orienting the direction of evolutionary diversification.

Social values, real as they are, depend on an evolutionary modification of the neural circuitry involved in basic survival.

Researchers have wondered whether being able to taste certain chemicals puts us at an evolutionary advantage.

Before lessons can be drawn from critters perched on the lower rungs of the evolutionary ladder, their behaviour must first be understood.

left us with a theory of adaptation through natural selection that remains at the core of modern evolutionary biology.

The united front is a great magic weapon to Complete missions of the Evolutionary and Construction for the Communist Party of China.

The audit program reviewed tended to be evolutionary, rarely anticipated all the circumstance to be encountered.

The Dobzhansky Papers are a remnant of the correspondence and writings of the geneticist and evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky.

Maloney found the fact that different bees seemed to take different strategies was intriguing from an evolutionary perspective.

By a last-resort evolutionary adaptation, female sharks, it turns out, are capable of parthenogenesis, or virgin births.

It's an inherent nature of an evolutionary process .

Seriously, though, the interest appears to be completely counter to evolutionary predictions that overt signs of fertility are crucial.

Comparisons of brains reveal that the proportion of glia to neurons increases greatly as animals move up the evolutionary ladder.

That is all right except that it defeats the evolutionary track of the Earth plane.

It might be the evolutionary origin of the phrase, "she's got him by the balls. "

Scientists believe the existence of this age-old reward mechanism indicates there is an evolutionary advantage in sampling the unknown.

So you can't say a whole lot of what that [type of fossil] represents in terms of evolutionary history or biology.

Giant pandas should be allowed to die out as they are stuck in an "evolutionary cul-de-sac" , according to BBC presenter Chris Packham.

We draw out the normative as well as the positive implications of an evolutionary theory.

It has also, in the jargon of evolutionary biology, pre-adapted vivax to a threat it has not evolved to deal with.

In evolutionary time, love is new, and we're still learning to used to it. It's a much more sophisticated human capability than desire.

Biological model, evolutionary model and formalistic model are the main theoretical research models in the study of the western art history.

The changing shape and contents of these pieces are the most intriguing evolutionary thread in Mr Hirst's work.

Physical Education Internship system coupling is a fundamental symbol of a harmonious state, evolutionary state.

Symbiosis as a major evolutionary force was not discussed at all in the evolutionary synthesis.

Like any wily and surviving creature, this new ideology has faced evolutionary pressures and adapted to its ecological niche.

Branch -- The graphical representation of an evolutionary relationship in a phylogenetic tree.

The answer may lie in the research by an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist Robin Dunbar.

There's a school of evolutionary anthropology that might agree with him.

Becoming an "extra-terrestrial" civilization is an inevitable evolutionary watershed of technological societies.

It has experienced three stages in psychology: eugenics and intelligence test, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.

Modern pleasures, like dinner dating, are remnants of that evolutionary past.

The system has undergone an evolutionary process of recovery, primary reform, deepening reform, and developing into the current form.

For good evolutionary reasons, to be discussed in a future essay, we human beings naturally crave freedom.

Scientists believe diabetes emerged in dolphins as an evolutionary adaptation to a high protein and low carbohydrate diet.

These algorithms belong to a more general category of Interactive evolutionary computation.

These data have been further integrated and augmented by a number of evolutionary and computational analyses.

In a way they are right; you could build even a complex system purely through evolutionary design.

Pregnant women do not tip over, and researchers say an evolutionary curve has a lot to do with the reason why.

Our evolutionary compulsion is to triumph, even if it means being totally, illogically, proudly wrong.

A researcher finds focusing on humans rather than animals helps students grasp some of the fundamental concepts of evolutionary theory.

Both of these processes are normally reliable; they are part of our evolutionary advantage.

There would be tremendous evolutionary advantage in biology for a complex system that was auto- poised .

Evidence for error minimization as the driving evolutionary force behind the arrangement of the code has its critics, however.

Which raises the evolutionary question of why men and women who are exclusive gay and lesbian exist.

It shows how why evolutionary analysis in law could benefit from incorporating culture and evolutionary theory which goes along with it.

Its dynamic nature will allow you to create evolutionary advertising, keeping in touch with the users.

Our results show that the cooperation frequency of the system has different features under the different evolutionary rules.

Evolutionary theory holds that species get bigger and stronger over time because larger, more dominant animals are more likely to reproduce.

Butits unstable nature also makes itself the least useful characteristicsindetermining the evolutionary relations between human groups.

Times have changed. Although some self-identified sociobiologists are still around, the current fashion is evolutionary psychology.

From an evolutionary psychological perspective, it does not make sense for extremely handsome men to be gay.

So there might be an evolutionary advantage to having someone help you give birth.

On this platform XP builds an evolutionary design process that relies on refactoring a simple base system with every iteration.

There are a huge number of evolutionary planets, moons and similar creations that have been implanted with life.

It's an important evolutionary milestone that helped make mammals - and humans among them - one of the Earth's dominant animal classes.

This copying might not have been very accurate, but it was enough to start a new evolutionary process.

As a result, the range of products to which evolutionary-design principles are being applied is growing.

The question then becomes why, when it might make more evolutionary sense to grow as fast as possible to have more offspring.

As I indicated above, we regression test thoroughly with an evolutionary approach to development.

If you think about it, this makes perfect evolutionary sense.

grid computing , most simply stated is distributed computing taken to the next evolutionary level.

Sufficient understanding of this conception will affect the understanding of evolutionary psychology itself.

Animals exhibit a variety of behaviors that certainly look like pleasure, and for which no evolutionary explanation seems obvious.

All the organisms in an ecosystem are part of an evolutionary continuum.

This was caused not so much by a radical change but by a series of minor evolutionary changes.

Univariate marginal distribution algorithm(UMDA)is a new evolutionary algorithm and is an efficient algorithm for complicate problem.

A very interesting and worth while evolutionary trait is that of the vernix.

Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age.

and as it synergizes into its maximum potential in each evolutionary sequence, a state of ecstasy is returned unto.

Harmlessness means that one ceases to interfere with the evolutionary process of any other human, any other species, or Earth at large.

There was strong support for scientists including Steven Hawking, the evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin, and Michael Faraday.

The available linguistic evidence does not support the model postulated by evolutionary sources for the origin of languages.

Previous research has suggested a similar trend and the prevailing theory was the difference has evolutionary origins.

An improved poly-population genetic algorithm on evolutionary stable strategy is proposed and applied to distribution network planning.

Government policy should respond to the needs of both countries and organisations at each stage of this evolutionary process.

Mitochondria are self - replicating, and probably they are the evolutionary descendants of what were once free-living prokaryotes.

Whereas, in the evolutionary process, TV media opened the curtain of a new stage for public communication by abundant propagation means.

We could be headed for the evolutionary equivalent of the Cambrian explosion in a lot shorter time than we originally expected.

One of the big unsolved mysteries in evolutionary theory is why creatures are altruistic.

Evolutionary process is of Sanjiang Basin geohistory rebuilt with numerical simulation technique.

In evolutionary terms, it means new neurons are likely helping you to remember the lion that nearly killed you.

They believe it may be a "missing piece in the evolutionary story of fish, mammals and ocean ecosystems" .

The shapes are very dissimilar, reflecting the evolutionary parameters of each process.

Cities attract only a small fraction of evolutionary biologists, who often work in lusher places like the Amazon.

ChatterBot - The aim of this project is to create a program which learns to use different languages by using evolutionary algorithms.

The evolutionary history of the university disciplinary structure may be divided into four periods, which have their own characteristics.

Fuzzy logic and evolutionary computation can be implemented synergistically for solving complex and high order problems.

Circular arguments at times appear common in evolutionary theory due to its theoretical nature and, at times, lack of solid evidence.

From an evolutionary point of view, panic can be a useful thing in moments of great danger.

Today, scientists can scan the entire genomes of New York's animals and plants to look for evolutionary changes. Last month, Mr.

From an evolutionary point of view, a trade-off between the two would have been predicted.

They carry inside them the genetic code that will take their species to the next evolutionary round.

This partnership with bacteria plus DNA analysis place the bone worms close to hydrothermal vent worms on the evolutionary tree.

Memetics, based on Darwin's evolutionary theory, is now a new pragmatic theory to reveal the law of cultural transmission.

Thereby, evolutionary knowledge can be applied and women can be encouraged to engage in moderate physical activity during pregnancy.

This integration would also represent the next evolutionary phase in accessible design.

It uses the concept of fitness, as do all evolutionary computation paradigms.

An evolutionary psychologist who works on cognition and language at Harvard, Professor Pinker writes like a modern Whig.

Love is pivotal as it is love and freedom ignites that life can be born and evolutionary fulfillment is fulfilled upon.

Mating is the evolutionary purpose of this stage of love; it creates strong physical attraction and sets the stage for emotional attachment.

In biology, the notions of symbiosis, group selection, evolutionary psychology are contested, to be sure.

Culture is an evolutionary process of life. Seeing about culture is indispensable to the analysis of culture structures and culture levels.

The world of high IQ societies certainly does not suggest the existence of a higher evolutionary plane.

Japan settled on evolutionary change in the direction of greater economic efficiency.

The research is to be published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology.

And we human beings are part of that creative evolutionary pulse that began 65 million years ago with the landing of an asteroid.

Now you think that is facetious. It may not be beauty and intelligence but it may be something else that has an evolutionary advantage.

In evolutionary biology, the definition of a distinct species is not entirely clear-cut.

Mahout contains implementations for clustering, categorization, CF, and evolutionary programming.

It makes no evolutionary sense for an organism to invest energy in self-repairing that could be devoted to reproduction.