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The emergence of intelligence is a complex distributed phenomenon and is itself evolutionary (over the course of human history), developmental (over the course of an individual's lifetime) and functional (necessary for the workings of increasingly complex societies).
Haig follows many commentators in suggesting that Mayr coined the term "ultimate" causation at least partly for political reasons: "ultimate valorizes the evolutionary over the merely proximate".
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This gives them a tremendous evolutionary advantage over Enlightenment agnosticism or atheism.
That led to live birth, one of the hallmarks of our evolutionary success over birds, reptiles, and fish.
He also studied how swallowtails adapt their coat patterns as camouflage to gain an evolutionary advantage over predators.
Rumsfeld's plan for invading Iraq was excellent, "an evolutionary advance over what Rumsfeld had found on the shelf," and American forces took Baghdad in 21 days.
He said there was a view that the architects had "imposed something", but that ignored the way "it was the product of an evolutionary process over eight years".
The study was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Changes like this may be the result of evolutionary adaptation over generations.
Estimates of average evolutionary divergence over sequence pairs within groups were shown in Table 3.
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