genetic evolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneticandevolution
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genetic
adjective
uk/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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evolution
noun[U]
uk/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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However, cultural adaptations that increase the fitness of a specific genotype in a specific environment may ultimately affectgeneticevolution.
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These processes are themselves products ofgeneticevolutionbut are nevertheless distinct from it.
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Can the cultural evolution of higher ethical values gain a direction and momentum of its own and completely replacegeneticevolution?
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The most phylogenetically ancient process ultimately responsible for niche construction isgeneticevolution.
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However, according to this perspective, culture has no power to codirect humangeneticevolutionthrough active modification or creation of selection pressures.
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Cultural learning thus lifts some of the burden ofgeneticevolutionto explain characteristics of language.
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Note that it leaves open the possibility that the design process for a given behavioral adaptation is something other thangeneticevolutionby natural selection.
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We maintain that a focus on niche construction has important implications for the relationship betweengeneticevolutionand cultural processes.
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It is likely that some cultural practices in contemporary human societies are still affecting humangeneticevolution.
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Historically, evolutionary theory has suggested only two possible routes via which feedback from human cultural activities could influence humangeneticevolution.
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It is one of the goals of population biology to develop sufficient mathematical models ofgeneticevolution, specifically changes in allele frequencies.
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Under such circumstances, culture is unlikely to affect the rate ofgeneticevolution.
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Selective migration in specific age groups would influence the selection intensity in a population and itsgeneticevolution.
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However, this initial conceptual model is too restricted and leaves us with a rather poor understanding of how humangeneticevolutioninteracts with human cultural life.
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The interaction betweengeneticevolution, learning, and intervening adaptive processes will turn on specific facts about genetic constraints, learning biases, and the environment of the organisms involved.
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If the cultural inheritance of an environment-modifying human activity persists for enough generations to generate a stable selection pressure, it will be able to codirect humangeneticevolution.
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Cultural niche construction can, of course, cause rates of environmental change that really are too fast for humangeneticevolutionto track, and it is probably doing so increasingly.
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Colarelli says culture is not stable enough to causegeneticevolutionand that niche construction adds further instability.
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We believe that due recognition of the role of niche construction in the evolutionary dynamic should advance our understanding of the relationship between human culture and humangeneticevolution.
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