Suppose it's true that we evolved a capacity and tendency for normative guidance because of the coordinating social function achieved by the expression of norm acceptance.
We discuss the implications regarding an evolved human tendency to expect streaky patterns, even if the sequence is actually random.
For instance, Davis and Petrov [ 15] investigated which types of genes are likely to generate functional and persistent duplicates and proposed that slowly evolving genes have a tendency to generate duplicates.
Human beings are "literary animals" with an evolved tendency to make and partake in storytelling, and we rely on metaphors to tell one another stories about animals in relation to ourselves.
Might this 'moral intuition' be attributable, at least in part, to an evolved tendency to favor members of one's kin group over others, analogous to similar traits in other animals?
However, evolutionary geneticists define canalization as the tendency of traits to evolve a reduction in variability [ 4, 10].
Instead, he attributes religion to a "misfiring" of something else that is adaptively useful; namely, a child's evolved tendency to believe its parents.
Supposed alpha males may always get their way not because of to some evolved tendency in humans to respect and obey men who display a specific set of characteristics, as if people were video games that respond to certain cheat codes, but simply because they're scary.
"We took a step back and asked whether it's possible that instead of the midlife crisis being human-specific, and driven only by social factors, it reflects some evolved tendency for middle-aged individuals to have lower wellbeing," he said.
Both spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR are based on a limited number of loci, and the markers used evolve rapidly with a tendency to converge [40].
