Based upon these findings, we propose a motor theory for the origin of vocal learning, this being that the brain areas specialized for vocal learning in vocal learners evolved as a specialization of a pre-existing motor pathway that controls movement.
The origin of song learning and culture in oscine songbirds occurred tens of millions years ago, perhaps even predating the completion of the break up of Gondwanaland (Barker et al. 2004).
Behav evo devo is the use of evolutionary developmental mechanisms to explain the origins of behaviors, learning, and language (Lickliter 2007; Bertossa 2011; Hoang et al. 2011; Hall 2012).
This study also highlights the importance of learning the origin of a gene when analyzing its function across different plant species.
Second, the value of learning the origin increases as food safety benefits of local products are communicated, i.e. as the utility gain of making the "right" choice increases, so does the value of information that ensures this choice.
In a series of extracts from "histories" written by the elders of the ruling High Council, we learn the origin of the conflict between the Alliance and the Crusaders.
Ms. Pierson's daughter, Phoebe, became a vegetarian at 13 after seeing an animal rights movie, where she learned the origin of veal.
But some owners of the Chevrolet Equinox, a "compact" sport utility vehicle built in North America, might be surprised to learn the origin of the engine under their hoods — it's made in China.
As you walk through this exhibition, mounted in honor of the Darwin bicentennial (and the 150th anniversary of "On the Origin of Species"), you may not learn anything new about his theories, but you will come to see differently, or at least begin to understand that our ways of seeing have evolved because of the power of his vision.
He was baffled — he had no teaching experience — until he learned the origin of the proposition: his friend and fellow-poet Theodore Roethke had had one of his periodic manic episodes, and, holed up in his faculty cottage, had said he would emerge peaceably only if Kunitz was hired to replace him.
