That's not a bad thing - caution is considered an important evolutionary adaptation.
The resemblance of families such as the Verbenaceae and Labiate is the result of evolutionary convergence.
Yet she is not the kind of ancestor most modern evolutionary biologists would have been looking for.
To give some context, it took EA's chart-topping evolutionary simulation Spore a good three weeks to hit the two million mark.
Could it be that having all this free energy lying around in fossil fuels offered us a dangerous dose of cultural steroids, the evolutionary equivalent of human growth hormone?
Objective evolutionary laws, however, do not applicable at the very beginning of an evolutionary event.
Ask not what gaps should be filled in evolutionary theory, but what gaps evolutionary theory should fill.
The advantages of cooperation and social learning then propelled the incipient human groups along a different evolutionary path.
Since these females would have had plenty of time to reproduce before they died, the evolutionary pressure imposed by killing them would be much lower.
If it is to reflect its evolutionary origins (as taxonomists would prefer) the genus needs to be divided up into many more smaller genera in which the species have similar characteristics.
The ecological setting acts as a stage for evolutionary processes.
How can you manage evolutionary versions of an Encyclopedia during the lifecycle of your architecture development?
In making decisions, the frontal lobe of the human brain, which is relatively new in evolutionary history, is instrumental.
One of the core ideas behind evolutionary architecture is to defer decisions as late as you can, which allows you to substitute alternatives that recent experience has shown are superior.
This tendency had the evolutionary value of stabilizing societies.
When we look at the so-called evolutionary tree, we're up on the upper right-hand corner with the animals.
People may be reluctant to trade goods related to food and mating because in the recent evolutionary past it meant parting with a known object in exchange for an uncertain proposition.
The risks of flexible and evolutionary software development are incoherent and inconsistent end results.
This is an argument over a relatively small rearrangement of some of the twigs on the evolutionary tree close to the origin of birds.
The most altruistic behavior of all, giving your life to help another, can be explained in cold-blooded evolutionary terms.
Physiology and evolutionary theory alike offer explanations for this tendency.
Among evolutionary biologists, this idea is contested.
Its strength seems to relate to the evolutionary salience of the item in question.
This default mode probably gave us an evolutionary advantage by making us alert to dangers while we were hunting and gathering.
An evolutionary trend in the animal kingdom toward centralization of neural and sensory organs in the head or anterior region of the body.
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