It is no wonder then, that intentionality is such an emotive issue for evolutionary biology.
The question why human beings are collaborative continues to bedevil the field of evolutionary biology.
The researchers published their work in the current issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Ayala is a popular speaker not only on evolutionary biology, but on the relationship between science and religion.
Dispersed, cooperative knowledge works in economics as it does in evolutionary biology, to accelerate advancement of the human species.
He said when evolutionary biology really took off in the 1940s, the history of the discovery had been largely forgotten.
The techniques come from fields such as evolutionary biology, chemical engineering and physics to capture tumor complexity in a few well-considered equations.
Most academics, and practically all of them who toil in the fields of psychology and evolutionary biology, lean to the political left.
Variation in loneliness among people also has an explanation in evolutionary biology.
The reason the ENCODE paper received this harsh criticism is because it made unsupported claims that turned evolutionary biology on its head.
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Redfield was presenting her results at a scientific meeting, the Joint Congress of Evolutionary Biology, tonight, and Carl Zimmer was live-blogging her talk.
The Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, the medieval origins of primogeniture and evolutionary biology are all enlisted to shed light on different aspects of financial risk.
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Scott Edwards, professor of organismal and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, suggested the more complicated picture in animals might be caused by the influence of another variable.
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"Introduced species are one of the principal causes of endangerment for half of endangered species, " says Daniel Simberloff, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee.
Modern evolutionary biology as we understand it, which is to say variation via genetic drift, mutations, duplications combined with the pruning filter of natural selection, certainly explains a great deal.
Omar Sultan Haque, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology at Harvard and Ehab Abouheif, a professor of evolutionary biology at McGill will also be discussing how evolution has been regarded by Muslims since Darwin.
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Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches has been keeping up on attempts by creationists affiliated with the Lousiana Family Forum (LFF) to interfere with the inclusion of evolutionary biology in public high school science textbooks.
Game theory is used to understand how decisions are made in fields as diverse as economics and evolutionary biology, and even for a game as simple as coin-flipping it can yield a strategy that gives each player the best chance of winning (or, at least, of coming out even).
Class.com, for example, is considering different biology classes that stress creationism or evolutionary theory to appeal to Christian fundamentalists or secular families, respectively.
Stephen Matheson discusses the issue this week, taking off a recent article in the July issue of PLoS Biology, which underscores how lethal evolutionary genetics can get.
But linking the behavior of humans to their evolutionary past was fraught with perils, not least because of the difficulty of disentangling culture and biology.
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