The New Yorker, August 25 , 1980P. 24 Some people prefer sluggish and more or less evolutionary causes for great events, while others, such as the writer, the great crash that does the job in the twinkling of an eye.
His presentation of the science in The Blank Slate was characteristically clear-eyed and carefully argued, but he ran into trouble with some of his claims about the evolutionary causes of enlightened society.
Examining the biological and evolutionary causes of language is a respectable endeavour, so why not apply the same approach to religion?
Some people prefer sluggish and more or less evolutionary causes for great events, while others, such as the writer, the great crash that does the job in the twinkling of an eye.
In biology, these are the evolutionary causes of a pattern.
We discuss implications of these findings for the evolutionary causes and consequences of trait correlations.
There are a variety of ways in which evolutionary causes come into play, but two of the most important are the principles of common descent and natural selection.
Thinking about the evolutionary causes and consequences of trait correlations has been dominated by quantitative genetics theory that is focused on hypothetical loci.
The ecology of seed dispersal is a field that develops very rapidly as essential elements of the ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences are being examined.
While the proximal and evolutionary causes of aging are well researched, the factors that contribute to sex differences in these traits have been less studied.
For older children and adults, careful choice of fossils allows the introduction of complex ideas such as biological classification and the hierarchical organization of life, in addition to the evolutionary causes underlying these concepts.
