evolutionary theorist
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandtheorist
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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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theorist
noun[C]
uk/ˈθɪə.rɪst/us/ˈθiː.ɚ.ɪst/
someone who develops ideas about the explanation ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandtheoristfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But anevolutionarytheoristwould observe that the act may ultimately promote the survival of her genes if the grateful parents return the favor.
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Trivers was in fact the firstevolutionarytheoristto acknowledge that selection could have favored adaptations that led some males to devote very little time and effort to short-term mating.
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Another has been confidence that evolutionary theorists have available adequate explanations for the existence of apparently altruistic behavior.
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Some evolutionary theorists have argued that biological evolution alone could account for the appearance of human creativity.
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Evolutionary theorists need to be quite clear on how they might facilitate the molecular and neuropsychological search.
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Their studies revealed high levels of heterozygosity relative to the predictions of most evolutionary theorists.
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The existence of altruistic behaviors has been a difficult problem for evolutionary theorists from the beginning.
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In the 1960s, as evolutionary theorists explored the possibility of multiple units of selection, ecologists turned to evolutionary approaches.
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Evolutionary theorists in biology and psychology argue that more symmetric faces are preferred because symmetry is a possible honest sign of superior genetic quality and developmental stability.
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Some evolutionary theorists suggest that the sympathetic nervous system operated in early organisms to maintain survival as the sympathetic nervous system is responsible for priming the body for action.
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