"The variation in the nature of religious beliefs are governed by specific brain areas in the anterior parts of the human brain," Grafman told PsyPost, "and those brain areas are among the most recently evolved areas of the human brain".
Surveys of American public school teachers also find wide variation in knowledge, belief, and amount of class time devoted to evolution (Rutledge and Warden 2000; Rutledge and Mitchell 2002; Trani 2004; Bowman 2008; Berkman et al. 2008; Moore 2008; Moore and Cotner 2009; Berkman and Plutzer 2010, 2011; Deniz and Donnelly 2011).
However, with the possible exception of variation in belief about whether air pollution is harmful, the data from this study indicate that such factors are unlikely to have a major impact on the use of mean or median population perception as an indictor of exposure.
Most misconceptions relating to natural selection are variations of the belief that individuals evolve.
The lack of specific hemodynamic measures and goals observed in the present systematic review may reflect the variation in clinicians' general beliefs and practice, or may reflect differences in patient populations studied.
We study relationships between preference change in the binary relation framework and belief change in the belief revision theory.
But Islamic unity is particularly exalted in the belief that unity emanates from, and is, Allah; that unity is the presence of Allah manifested in visual and material patterns, and as such can never be exhausted in its infinite variation.
In contrast, there was more variation in the range of views amongst psychiatrists seen in their responses concerning underlying beliefs about the nature of anorexia nervosa.
Although there are cultural variation in beliefs and practice in Nigeria, the inclusion of the major ethnic group during the validation process is highly invaluable.
There was some variation in beliefs regarding treatment according the length of time in Australia of the respondents and their levels of education and religious affiliations.
