ancestral environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofancestralandenvironment
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ancestral
adjective[before noun]
uk/ænˈses.trəl/us/ænˈses.trəl/
relating to members of your family from ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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It is likely that those individuals with the greatest expression of the genotype perished quickly in theancestralenvironment.
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They may reflect recent modern problems or problems more typical of theancestralenvironment.
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Second, we need to show that the real threats in theancestralenvironmentwere the kind of events the threatsimulation system is good at simulating.
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I think we need to consider the originalancestralenvironmentonce again.
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What were the most likely threats to survival in theancestralenvironment?
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In theancestralenvironmenthuman life was short and full of threats.
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The more modest claim of evolutionary psychologists is that humans have evolved specific adaptations for adaptive problems that were reliably present in theancestralenvironment.
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Dreams are biased toward simulating threats that were common in ourancestralenvironment.
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Individuals without the threat-simulation system would have been in a disadvantageous position, and would have been selected against in theancestralenvironment.
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The ecologically valid threat cues in the humanancestralenvironmentfully activated the threatsimulation system.
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Precise behavioral strategies that are relevant for theancestralenvironmentare not relevant for modern life.
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A relatively high arousal level and sensitive responses to threats probably were useful rather than harmful in theancestralenvironment.
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He furthermore neglects the proper evolutionary context of dreaming, theancestralenvironment.
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They suggest that there was no need for training threat perception and avoidance in theancestralenvironment.
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The threat simulation system has default values consistent with theancestralenvironmentand ancestral threats.
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It is only such studies that could tell us whether the threat simulation system might have worked appropriately in theancestralenvironment.
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The ecologically valid threat cues in the humanancestralenvironmentfully activated the threat-simulation system.
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We need to show, first, that there was a high selectional pressure in theancestralenvironment.
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But do these facile judgments tell us anything about the selective advantage empathy provided in theancestralenvironment?
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One side of the rift emphasizes the importance of innate psychological mechanisms that evolved to solve specific problems encountered in theancestralenvironment.
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