Reflecting on his experiences with people who had initially resisted evolutionary ideas but had eventually overcome their original rejection of evolution, Pigliucci ([2002]) called for the research community to focus on individuals who had progressed from rejection of evolution to acceptance.
Unlike many academics who resist this biological, evolutionary approach, the press seeks it.
In fact, most sociologists stubbornly resist the application of evolutionary theory, the great unifying principle in the biological sciences.
But social psychologist Roy Baumeister argues that gossip may be particularly tough to resist because of the evolutionary advantages that came with learning about dangerous things as opposed to positive or otherwise non-threatening ones.
We also expand on past population genetic studies in WCR and show that this species has significant genetic diversity, little population structure, and a high evolutionary potential to resist control strategies.
In fact, Charron et al. described the evidence for co-evolution between eIF4E of C. annuum plants and potyviral VPg, as there is a strong evolutionary pressure to resist viral pathogens [ 25].
Furthermore, evolutionary pressures to resist invasion of foreign DNA (e.g. phages and plasmids) also appears to provide an explanation for the presence of CRISPR, CRISPR-associated genes, as well as R/M systems in the variable regions of B. breve.
The first observable consequence of this evolutionary paradigm that females resist the loss of body energy stores while males mobilize energy stores promptly is the distribution of the main energy storage organ, the white adipose tissue.
But it is not obvious why such male and female "coping strategies" should not be underpinned by genetics, in the same way that perceptions are.The evolutionary reason why men resist pain better than women is, however, a mystery.
