Sentence examples for we evolved for from inspiring English sources

We evolved, for reasons of survival, to read faces and now we have evolved – for reasons of avoiding online embarrassment – to read emoticons.

We evolved for lying, and because of lying, just as much as we evolved for and because of honest communication.

From both colonies, we started with 10 wild-type and 10 bem1∆ cultures, which we evolved for one thousand generations by serial dilutions, regularly freezing down a sample, resulting (due to contamination) in nine surviving bem1∆ lineages and seven wild-type lineages.

Will we be undoing the knack we've evolved for recognizing danger?

In his book, The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, Dr. Christopher Germer states, "We have evolved for survival, not happiness, and thus have a natural tendency to focus on the negative".

Dr. Hauser is currently working on a book called "Evilicious: Why We Evolved a Taste for Being Bad".

Three people ahead, I saw a girl – the sort of girl so incredibly attractive that it makes you genuinely question how and when we evolved far enough for someone to look like that.

The irony of that last part — and of the title of Hauser's book-in-progress, "Evilicious: Why We Evolved a Taste for Being Bad" — wasn't lost on some observers.

So we evolved the capacity for language, a "less yucky and more efficient way to get to know our peers, since we can talk to several friends at once but only groom one at a time," as Christakis and Fowler put it.

That's why we evolved to fear for our privacy.

Because we evolved in tribes, for millions of years the enemy or cause was often someone or something outside the tribe.