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What is the evolutionary origin of such lateralizations?
Current knowledge indicates that ticks have a life pattern that produces apparently conflicting evolutionary selection pressures.
To contrast mitochondrial with nuclear variation strengthens demographic investigations because it offers an independent view of evolutionary forces.
Evolutionary biology differentiates ' primitive ' features that are present in a species and species ancestral to it and related species.
At the time of their writing, there was no explanation for diachronic change within societies other than that provided by race-based evolutionary theory.
Since the regulation of enzyme activity (left) is of great evolutionary value, a number of different levels of control appeared during evolution.
In the case of some and probably most males and females, facultative responsiveness makes great evolutionary sense.
First, note that shepard's approach points the way to a long overdue task: to compile what can be considered evolutionary constraints on perception.
In the end, preference for one source over the other may depend on whose evolutionary stories one finds congenial.
Several of these commentators also address the evolutionary significance of symmetry perception.
She is right to direct attention to evolutionary origins.
A developmental constraint is simply a type of evolutionary constraint.
Nevertheless, novel biological and evolutionary understanding of language (and other cognitive structures) may occur beforehand.
Evolutionary theory would seem to be superfluous for understanding body (and therefore brain) functions.
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