New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution.
As reported by Brett Arends in The Wall Street Journal, this all too familiar habit of buying high and selling low has its origins in human evolution.
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That, at least, is the contention of David Puts, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, in an upcoming paper in Evolution and Human Behavior.
And they lay out their case that this is so in a paper just published in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Healthy, strapping sons are likely to produce lots of grandchildren, by several women or would have done in the hunter-gatherer societies in which most human evolution took place.
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Touch is not intuitive, because in fifty million years of human evolution, we do not touch each other and in the US, it's politically incorrect.
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Yet its importance in the evolution of human civilization can't be denied.
The results, to be published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, show that the men and women collected on average about the same weight of mushrooms.
In the experiment, reported online in the Journal of Human Evolution, a human adult first attracted the attention of the non-human ape or the human child, and then looked up at the ceiling.
In terms of what makes us human, the most promising areas for exploration are six regions that show very little variation among humans but more variation in chimps suggesting they were important in the human line of evolution.
Writing in Evolution and Human Behaviour Victoria Reyes-Garcia, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and her colleagues describe a study they carried out on the Tsimane', a group of Amerindians who live in Bolivia's slice of the Amazonian rainforest.
Their results, just published in Evolution and Human Behavior, were the same for all three of the elections they looked at the 2004 and 2008 presidential contests, and the 2006 mid-terms (in which the Democrats made big gains in both houses of Congress).
What explains the extraordinarily fast rate of evolution in the human lineage over the past two million years?
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And in an incredible burst of human evolution, our minds have grown accustomed to monitoring multiple inputs at once.
These curious hominids lived about two million years ago in an era that scientists consider the crucible of human evolution, when four or more apelike hominid species struggled for survival in Africa.
In the human brain, designed by evolution, every tiny part is very different from every other tiny part.
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Since time immemorial, the development of peoples and intercultural exchanges along ancient trade routes have played a crucial role in the evolution and transformation of human civilization.
But perhaps the most important reason is that we are in an incredibly fluid era of human social evolution.
Ashleigh Griffin ( 2008 FWIS Fellow), Elizabeth Murchison ( 2009 FWIS Fellow), Araxi Urrutia ( 2007 FWIS Fellow) and Patricia Alireza ( 2009 FWIS Fellow) provided fascinating insights into their work on the behaviour of bacteria living in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, transmissible cancers in Tasmanian Devils, human gene and genome evolution and the effects of high pressure at quantum level.
The company is overhauling its merchandise, finance and human resources systems in a program called Project Evolution.
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To believe that is to believe that the arc of human evolution suddenly jumped the curve in the 1980s, producing a race of 300-pound men able to leap tall buildings and run the 40-yard dash like a bullet.
In fact, it's a byproduct of human evolution, experts say.
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Scientists in the UK say the Tasmanian remains could shed light on human evolution, and particularly on the colonisation of Australia.
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Two imperatives have shaped the evolution of the human funerary rite: physical hygiene in this life and spiritual preparation for the next.
Evolution often fails to produce the clear divisions that human thought in general, and the law in particular, prefers to work with.
On the other hand, there are many valid findings in the fossil record where human remains were found during periods that (according to evolution) that predated man.
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, space travel led to the next phase of human evolution.
Dr. Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a keen interest in historical linguistics, is co-founder of a project known as Evolution of Human Languages.
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Clearly accessible to the lay reader, it also stood smack in the middle of the intellectual debate about just how much evolution has to say about human behaviour.
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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