evolutionary account
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandaccount
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evolutionary
adjective
uk/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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account
noun
uk/əˈkaʊnt/us/əˈkaʊnt/
an arrangement with a bank to keep your money there and to allow you to take it out when you ...
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A complete explanation of animal behavior requires anevolutionaryaccount.
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The placebo response may be one such adaptation, and anyevolutionaryaccountof pain must also address this important phenomenon.
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I regard this as a more plausibleevolutionaryaccount.
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They try to answer that question by anevolutionaryaccountwhich includes their theory of event coding.
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Thus, they do not offer a fullevolutionaryaccountof religion.
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Anevolutionaryaccountof schizophrenia must explain this genetic variation.
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The ease of learning religious beliefs during childhood is important in anyevolutionaryaccount.
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Considering the different emotion expressions elicited by painful stimulation as reflecting different emotions and motivations, may strengthen anevolutionaryaccountof pain, pain-induced expressions, and coping behaviors.
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Burns provides anevolutionaryaccountfor schizophrenia that integrates advances in cognitive neuroscience with theories of human psychological evolution.
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Although these considerations of adaptive advantage are neither complete nor definitive, they suggest that anevolutionaryaccountof autonomy need not be incompatible with ontogentic and social-psychological analyses.
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Third, although their attitudes toward anevolutionaryaccountof perception is superficially different, they are fundamentally similar with respect to the internalization process.
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However, when attempting to provide anevolutionaryaccountfor the occurrence of a species-typical trait, explanations of the development of the trait are often either ignored or simplified.
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Pain has been largely neglected in the evolutionary literature and the literature on expression of emotion, but anevolutionaryaccountcan generate improved assessment of pain and reactions to it.
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Williams' version of anevolutionaryaccountof the pain expression is based on the assumption that pain is an emotion and contains other emotions or emotion expressions as integral components.
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Notice the relation between the answer, the nativist'sevolutionaryaccountof his model, and the constructivist's account of how a child figures out the structure of a problem space.
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It further proposes that anevolutionaryaccountwould provide some insight into not only predictable stages of ontogeny, but into specific differences between individuals as well.
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Characteristically, evolutionary accounts shy away from introducing considerations of time discounting as a complicating dimension.
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In terms of the first problem, evolutionary accounts tend to overemphasise homogeneity in the past and over emphasise diversity in the present, ignoring continuities between them.
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