The study was led from the Centre for Social Evolution (CSE) at the University of Copenhagen.
Nonconformists are responsible for many of the big evolutionary leaps and bounds in leadership and social evolution.
But perhaps the most important reason is that we are in an incredibly fluid era of human social evolution.
Because of our social evolution we're not wired to automatically remember that our e-mails and texts and blogs and Facebook chats leave a semi-permanent record.
Moffatt also pointed out that, at this point in its evolution, social media may just be impossible to ignore.
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If you'd mapped out the evolution of social sharing online a few years ago, you might have predicted that something like Pinterest would emerge.
Over the course of their evolution, social game makers have also tended to try and broaden that dynamic with different themes or surface differences in gameplay.
For at least 5 years, communications agencies have been trumpeting the evolution of social as the silver bullet that will finally throw the marketing balance of power into its favor.
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He's hoping that Pistorius' high-profile competitions will help move us toward an evolution in social consciousness: accepting the validity and equality of synthetic body parts just as we do different races and genders.
Sites like Sgrouples.com, an emerging social media alternative that does all the familiar Facebook things, adds a storage function, and allows users to control their personal information and share more privately, represent a possible next generation in the evolution of social media.
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Facebook is indicative of the rise of social media and the continued evolution of converged media.
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Eduardo anticipated the evolution of the social web and graph.
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They pick top trends as cloud, which they expect to take 30 percent of the UK SITS market by 2014, but note also the fast evolution of mobile, social media and the consumerization of enterprise IT.
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Investigating the evolution of the lion social structure in such detail, Prof Packer and his team have had to look closely at the many theories for this lifestyle that have been suggested over the years, such as co-operative hunting, communal suckling of cubs and defence of young against attack.
We're social creatures, but for much of evolution, instant communication involved talking face-to-face.
The least-attractive men simply tended to have fewer children than their more-attractive counterparts, but Jokela suggests that might have more to do with the social effects of finding a spouse than evolution.
In July, I wrote about one part of this evolution where mobile games developer Social Gaming Network launched the first game ever to let iPhone and Android users play each other in real-time.
While they may seem attractive theories on the surface, on closer inspection the research team found they could not be the driving force in the evolution of the lion's social lifestyle.
This says that the winnowing of the gene pool, which drives evolution, can favour or destroy entire social groups as single entities, as well as working at the level of individual organisms.
The hardware evolution that is tablet computing is already having profound effects on social computing, and it was pretty cool that a little molding company in Ohio woke us up to that.
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The social-media voice he developed was, in a way, a natural evolution for Ebert.
Both services represent an evolution of current e-reader features, which thus far have implemented social networking as content-sharing, not purchases, and limited rewards to non-monetary prizes.
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Enterprise executives are not just enduring this evolution in communication, but many are embracing and proactively seeking ways to use these social applications to form connections with their customers and their employees.
Haidt fails to grapple meaningfully with the question of why nearly all of the best minds in science find liberal ideas to be closer to the mark with respect to evolution, human nature, mental health, close relationships, intergroup relations, ethics, social justice, conflict resolution, environmental sustainability, and so on.
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In just the past year, we have seen the beginnings of an important evolution: many media organizations are moving from a largely agnostic relationship to their role in social change to openly discussing, pursuing, and even attempting to track their impact on the issues they address.
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