Communication by the spoken word — and, therefore, its neural basis — has every mark of having evolved through the gradual processes of natural selection.
Communication by the spoken word and, therefore, its neural basis has every mark of having evolved through the gradual processes of natural selection.
The architect Peter Zumthor observes that our perception of atmosphere is intuitive, having evolved through an advanced emotional sensibility: "Not every situation grants us time to make up our minds on whether or not we like something – or whether, indeed, we might be better heading off in the opposite direction".
The attack by Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theater Company upon the seasonal perennial (or is it just the unavoidable?) by Charles John Huffam Dickens, is, first things first, not a play by committee, but one of collaboration, having evolved through the synergy among Mr. Sullivan, the former artistic director of the Seattle Rep, and its resident actors.
But this does not by itself settle whether these capacities and tendencies are themselves adaptations, having evolved through natural selection because of their adaptive effects.
To a first approximation, this LTEE population can be thought of as having evolved through three metabolic epochs: first, glucose utilization was optimized, leading to greater acetate accumulation; second, acetate utilization was optimized in conjunction with further improvements in glucose growth; third, citrate utilization was discovered and optimized.
