evolutionary past
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandpast
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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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past
noun[S]
uk/pɑːst/us/pæst/
the period before and until, but not including, the ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandpastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The view advanced here is that they identify a set of behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in ourevolutionarypastby group selection.
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Certainly the "homunculus" problem has plagued psychology, and the difficulties of describing features of an internal mind are exacerbated when confronting theevolutionarypast.
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Biologically primary abilities are found cross-culturally and are designed by natural selection in ourevolutionarypast.
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Adaptationism, as a research strategy, seeks to identify adaptations and to elucidate the specific selection pressures that forged them in an organism'sevolutionarypast.
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In common with many writers then and now, he believed that theevolutionarypastis conserved in the mind and the brain.
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Corballis's argument rests on the claim that modern-day spoken language evolved out of a gestural communication system in ourevolutionarypast.
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Conventional views of such high reactivity suggest that it is an atavistic and pathogenic legacy of anevolutionarypastin which threats to survival were more prevalent and severe.
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Haeckel's appeal to anevolutionarypastoffered no explanation at all, for it could not explain the physiological process of differentiation and change.
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This commentary argues that by looking at the present-day link between speech and gesture, we can get a glimpse into how language emerged in ourevolutionarypast.
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He advocates removing religion as an influence from society, and seeks to improve humanity's understanding of itsevolutionarypast, and responsibility for its future.
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He has stated that a plant-based diet rich in carbohydrates is consistent with the humanevolutionarypast.
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In summary, ancestral reconstruction allows for the study of evolutionary pathways, adaptive selection, and functional divergence of theevolutionarypast.
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The study of past fungi can lead to theevolutionarypast.
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This promotes a view of the world as competitive, similar to the jungle of theevolutionarypast.
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The shell-less condition has arisen many times independently during theevolutionarypast, and thus the category slug is emphatically a polyphyletic one.
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This model holds that religion is the byproduct of the cognitive modules in the human brain that arose in ourevolutionarypastto deal with problems of survival and reproduction.
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Animals accomplish learning tasks most easily when those tasks resemble problems that they faced in theirevolutionarypast, such as a rat learning where to find food or water.
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