• Pardis Sabeti, MD, DPhil, is a member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor at the Center for Systems Biology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. (medscape.com)
  • Understanding how large-scale environmental variability may shape the distribution of phenotypic variation remains central to evolutionary biology. (frontiersin.org)
  • David Klinghoffer asks whether PZ Myers should be bullying undergraduate student Jonathan M. simply for asking some hard questions of evolutionary biology. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Luskin recounts various models of embryological development which have been discussed during this debate, concluding that evolutionary biology has failed to explain the data. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Unfortunately, the new flurry of activity in evolutionary biology inspired by evolutionary medicine won't by itself change the professional lives of doctors and the experience of patients. (thewire.in)
  • For this new research to have an impact on doctors and patients, evolutionary biology must have an equally salubrious effect on medicine and clinical practice. (thewire.in)
  • This can come about only if doctors and medical researchers adopt evolutionary biology as the core principle integrating their entire domain. (thewire.in)
  • A similar transformation in the spirit of "nothing makes sense in health and disease except in the light of evolution" will be needed for the fruits of evolutionary biology to percolate into medicine. (thewire.in)
  • This progress has been greatly facilitated by Stephen C. Stearns, the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, who took a deep interest in the new discipline in its early infancy. (thewire.in)
  • Stephen C. Stearns, the Edward P. Bass Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. (thewire.in)
  • Were you already starting to get into the whole selection, mutation, and evolutionary biology by then? (medscape.com)
  • Evolutionary medicine has come a long way since the pioneering efforts of three intrepid scholars, the ornithologist Paul Ewald, the psychiatrist Randolph Nesse and the marine biologist George Williams. (thewire.in)
  • They are awesome, spider webs - they're just not the pinnacle of spider evolution that we thought," says Jason Bond, an evolutionary biologist at Auburn University in Alabama, whose team determined the evolutionary relationship of spiders by analysing more than 300 genes in 33 families 1 . (nature.com)
  • A team led by evolutionary biologist Rosa Fernández of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, comes to the same conclusion, using a tree forged from more than 2,000 genes in 12 spider families. (nature.com)
  • Evolution is unpredictable," responds Matjaž Kuntner, an evolutionary biologist at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana. (nature.com)
  • I am a diversity and speciation researcher with evolutionary genomics and biogeography expertise and a background in evolutionary ecology. (lu.se)
  • Inspired by evolutionary theory, the preparation hypothesis has been forwarded to explain a common finding in sex research: that genital arousal in women can be automatically activated in response to a variety of sexual stimuli that are non-specific in terms of sexual attraction (Suschinsky & Lalumière, 2011 ). (springer.com)
  • Evolutionary theory has been criticized from many different angles, raising concerns about testability and falsifiability, overly broad assumptions, stability and rigidity rather than flexibility, ignoring the role of learning processes and contextual influences, disregarding complexity and individual differences, as well as lack of practical implications (Confer et al. (springer.com)
  • Neutral Theory and random genetic drift are integral parts of evolutionary theory. (blogspot.com)
  • evolutionary theory," says Melvin Konner. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • At the same time, new research will increasingly be driven by hypotheses from evolutionary theory, even more so as Americans' ignorance about evolution is overcome. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • We think it's unrealistic to think that teachers would be able to be informed enough to teach it well at this point, and so we said, 'Look, the main focus,' as you have said, 'of biological research is evolutionary theory. (pandasthumb.org)
  • The "Let's look at that [evolutionary theory] openly and in a critical manner" statement is trickier. (pandasthumb.org)
  • Drawing on insights from evolutionary theory, Sven Steinmo challenges the common equilibrium view of politics and economics and argues that modern political economies are best understood as complex adaptive systems. (eui.eu)
  • EAEPE originated in 1988 and its main purpose is to promote evolutionary, dynamic and realistic approaches to economic theory and policy. (eui.eu)
  • Charles Darwin - Formally titled "Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory," the exhibit describes the Charles Darwin's life and the fortunes of the theory of evolution by natural selection. (nih.gov)
  • Yes I've seen you associated both with ecological economics and evolutionary economics. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • We combine genomic, evolutionary and ecological studies to ask and answer questions about the distribution, diversification and conservation of biodiversity within and among species, and in particular how these patterns and processes are affected by the interaction between plants and insects. (lu.se)
  • We collaborate closely on most projects, which allows us to use our complementary expertise and perspectives to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes, including species interactions, can generate novel biodiversity. (lu.se)
  • First of all let me just say this that I don't think that there is an agreement about the definition of ultrasociality, either on the part of evolutionary biologists, or on the part of anthropologists and economists like myself. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Vincent Torley (vjtorley), a philosopher from Australia, has struggled with the idea for several weeks and now he thinks he has some challenging questions for evolutionary biologists. (blogspot.com)
  • The preparation hypothesis is unclear about the (evolutionary adaptive) function of subjective sexual arousal and how this relates to genital arousal. (springer.com)
  • The central question is: Do we actually need an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the function, underlying dynamics, and gender differences in genital arousal responding? (springer.com)
  • Hence, in addition to the support of the evolutionary hypothesis of the female superiority in detecting facial expressions of emotions, recognition of facial expressions also depend on the time available to correctly identify an expression. (bvsalud.org)
  • The strongest evidence for this analysis seems to be the explanatory power of the evolutionary paradigm when dealing with moral conduct. (str.org)
  • As Gage and Kosoy ( 5 ) have commented, "The importance of research on the natural history of plague can hardly be questioned, as it has provided critical information for the development of effective plague prevention and control techniques, but often contradictory results point out the need for studies designed to test specific hypotheses. (cdc.gov)
  • He typically approaches these topics with concepts grounded in evolutionary psychology. (vu.nl)
  • She addresses these questions combining insights from behavioral, survey, and meta-analytic methods, and by integrating theories from psychology, sociology, and political science. (vu.nl)
  • She draws upon ideas from psychology, behavioral economics, and the evolutionary human sciences to study questions about cooperation and ethical decision-making. (vu.nl)
  • In part 2 of my interview with David Buss, he responds to more criticisms of evolutionary psychology. (thepsychfiles.com)
  • Here’s what we cover: a) does evolutionary psychology just give criminals another reason not to take responsibility for themselves? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • b) is all the research in evolutionary psychology done on American college students? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • c) are evolutionary psychology theories falsifiable? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • There has been a lot of criticism of evolutionary psychology lately. (thepsychfiles.com)
  • Find out how he responds to these questions: a) is evolutionary psychology sexist? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • b) doesn’t evolutionary psychology just give people the ammunition they need to not take responsibility for themselves? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • c) theories from evolutionary psychology are not falsifiable, this it’s not scientific and d) human society is always changing â€" it hasn’t been stable enough long enough for any human behavior to have evolved. (thepsychfiles.com)
  • Curious about evolutionary psychology? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • This view of morality is one of the conclusions of the new science of evolutionary psychology. (str.org)
  • One notable example of this challenge to the transcendent nature of morality comes from the book The Moral Animal-Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. (str.org)
  • 1 Robert Wright, The Moral Animal-Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Pantheon Books, 1994), p. 23. (str.org)
  • He talks about "genes inclining a male to love his offspring," [2 Robert Wright, The Moral Animal-Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (New York: Pantheon Books, 1994), p. 58]. (str.org)
  • To answer this question, we need other theoretical models that examine the proximal determinants of genital arousal, its relation to other components of sexual responding, and its practical implications in terms of sexual function and well-being. (springer.com)
  • The Gunnar Myrdal Prize is awarded annually for the best monograph on a theme broadly in accord with the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) theoretical perspectives. (eui.eu)
  • Stearns and Medzhitov have put the science of evolutionary medicine on a firm theoretical footing and provide impressive empirical support for many of the claims of the discipline. (thewire.in)
  • These questions are not so farfetched to the nearly 200 scientists, scholars, artists and public intellectuals who contributed essays for the recently released book What to Think About Machines That Think , edited by John Brockman. (edge.org)
  • However, scientists as authors and readers were wary of their quality and sustainability [ Schauder, 1994 ] and some raised the question as to whether electronic journals were needed at all [ Odlyzko, 1996 ]. (dlib.org)
  • A total of 862 scientists responded to these surveys. (dlib.org)
  • Teaching and conducting research with students has provided me with a great framework for channeling my love of natural history to train creative, innovative thinkers that address important questions relating to evolutionary adaptation and how populations may respond to ongoing shifts in climate and land use. (warren-wilson.edu)
  • When I had initially heard that the local skeptical society in my hometown had invited well-known atheist and anti-creationist P.Z. Myers to deliver a talk on October 5, 2009, entitled "Evolutionary Denialism" at Minot State University (less than a mile from my home), North Dakota, USA, I was ambivalent about attending. (creation.com)
  • What did I hope to achieve by questioning Myers? (creation.com)
  • This series began when ENV writer Jonathan M. asked some tough questions of PZ Myers about evolution and embryology at a Skeptics event in Glasgow, Scotland. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Luskin breaks down the embryology debate between Jonathan M. and PZ Myers into three simple points and counterpoints, revealing that PZ is not responding to our arguments. (evolutionnews.org)
  • I was influenced in this view by Masatoshi Nei's book Molecular Evolutionary Genetics (1987). (blogspot.com)
  • His recent work is on evolutionary quantitative genetics on phylogenies. (washington.edu)
  • Material and methods: Thirty-one students were interviewed by using a questionnaire with open questions, followed by qualitative and quantitative analysis through answers' grouping. (bvsalud.org)
  • As has been the case since Origins of the Spieces was written, followers of Darwin use rhetoric over facts to expound their evolutionary agenda, even to the point of attempting to view Darwin as a "religious" young man who was really attempting to assist the church. (dennyburk.com)
  • Roscoe Brady & Gaucher Disease - How medical researchers study diseases, by answering three basic questions. (nih.gov)
  • Last year, after having researched the subject for more than two decades, I published Signature in the Cell , which provides an extensive evaluation of the principal competing theories of the origin of biological information and the related question of the origin of life. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Across-species comparisons of trait variation alongside environmental gradients may offer valuable insights into how different species may respond to similar selective pressures. (frontiersin.org)
  • For instance, my friend Keith Miller has suggested that the question "what is a species" would be a good question for high school students to tackle. (pandasthumb.org)
  • For instance, the question would involve both the present and the past: in the present, species are differentiated primarily (but not exclusively) by the ability to breed or not, but in the past they must be differentiated much more by morphological characteristics preserved in the fossils. (pandasthumb.org)
  • The question would bring up the tension between the messy ambiguities and fuzzy boundaries of the real world with the more precise (and misleading) sense of certainty created by using language to name things: things like ring species, hybrids, and transitional fossils would help students see some of the problems of taxonomy in general. (pandasthumb.org)
  • Morality can be reduced to chemical relationships in the genes chosen by different evolutionary needs in the physical environment. (str.org)
  • pandemic is a great public health concern, Of the 15 avian influenza virus subtypes, and for this reason our study set out to H5N1 is of particular concern for several answer some important questions related reasons: it mutates rapidly and has a docu- to present knowledge and concerns about mented propensity to acquire genes from avian influenza in one city in Saudi Arabia. (who.int)
  • How do researchers respond? (thepsychfiles.com)
  • One of the leading researchers in this field â€" Dr. David Buss of the University of Texas responds to these critics in part 1 of this 2 part episode. (thepsychfiles.com)
  • This gap was felt among politically conscious readers and researchers eager to understand better what many sensed to be a period of upheaval and change, and among students and teachers of modern history, politics, economics and international affairs who recognized the growing influence of the EU but lacked a general reference book on its activities and felt themselves unduly reliant on Community sources for information about controversial European questions. (lu.se)
  • Pew Research used them to form a tension-pair question survey that was distributed to noted academics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Every year, the site Edge.org a question to about 200 people at the research frontiers. (edge.org)
  • New research, however, seems to snuff out this particular evolutionary scenario. (reasons.org)
  • A central question throughout the study of animal communication research has been whether animal signals convey reliable information, and this question has been particularly relevant to communication during conflicts where the evolutionary interests of competitors directly oppose. (umass.edu)
  • Today there are thousands of research papers, dozens of monographs and textbooks, a journal ( Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health ), an ' International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health ', a club for Virtual Evolutionary Medicine Conversations , and even a young child-field called evolutionary psychiatry . (thewire.in)
  • This will be done by addressing the following research question: What is the effect of alternative management strategies, characterized by different levels of forestry intensity, harvesting of biofuels from forests and protection of forests being distributed across the landscape, on trade-offs and synergies between carbon sequestration, biomass production (wood and biofuels), biodiversity and soil and water quality? (lu.se)
  • In other words, intelligent design is the only explanation that cites a cause known to have the capacity to produce the key effect in question. (evolutionnews.org)
  • To Wright, the evolutionary explanation is "obvious. (str.org)
  • There is no precise answer because the evolutionary process, whether for homo sapiens or political institutions, has no final destination. (politico.eu)
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts. (stackexchange.com)
  • When Q&A came around, I chose three questions I wanted him to answer. (creation.com)
  • It is not necessary that we ever know the answer to the question of what was the beginning. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Curiosity & Collaboration: The Work of Michael Potter - This exhibit captures the spirit of Michael Potter, a man driven by curiosity, not competition, whose only goal was to answer questions about the nature of life. (nih.gov)
  • Christopher Stobart] That is a really hard question to answer, because there aren't a lot of known tickborne viruses, and far less than there are tickborne bacterial infections. (cdc.gov)
  • A popular question at this time of the year as politicians, think-tanks and journalists try to peer through the haze of uncertainty is: "Where is the European Union heading? (politico.eu)
  • He couldn't simply be responding biologically, since there had to be an evolutionary bonus, a survivalist advantage in time of famine, to a large ass. (brooklynrail.org)
  • Don't be surprised by questions that touch on your extracurricular interests, the kind of books you read, and what you like to do in your free time. (whitman.edu)
  • The suggesting being that the developments seen are compatible with an evolutionary time scale as there is plenty of time for life to develop into newer forms. (creation.com)
  • In other words, disparity should grow with time (especially as many 'branches' of the evolutionary tree die off). (creation.com)
  • He has been distributing his phylogeny program package, PHYLIP, for 33 years, and for most of that time has been patiently responding to user questions by urging the users to read the documentation. (washington.edu)
  • However, selection should also favor signal recipients to respond only to informative signals, and therefore only reliable signals are expected to be maintained over evolutionary time. (umass.edu)
  • Stearns also told me that although he was not really an expert in the field of evolutionary medicine (at least at that time), because he was the editor of that volume, he began to get invitations to speak about evolutionary medicine. (thewire.in)
  • In unicellular organisms like E. coli and yeast, the benefits of between potential cost and benefit, regulation can make the most a well-adapted regulatory system are readily quantified, as the difference to the long-term growth rate if the resource in question fitness of an individual can be estimated by its growth rate in is only available a similarly small fraction of the time. (lu.se)
  • Over evolutionary time scales, regulation must provide a fitness benefit that offsets the costs of maintaining the regulatory system. (lu.se)
  • I'm sorry if my question has been answered by one of your prior articles, but I could not find anything addressing these claims. (creation.com)
  • The question is whether evolution tilts us in that direction. (brill.com)
  • One of the central questions in human evolution is the origin of human sociality and human culture. (bvsalud.org)
  • We use computational tools to ask big multi-disciplinary questions concerning identity, genotype-phenotype relationships, and evolution. (lu.se)
  • a large scale forecasting game that invited players to use social media to describe how they would respond to five hypothetical but plausible threats to Humanity in the year 2019. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the direction can be altered by how the Union responds to identifiable threats and challenges. (politico.eu)
  • Responding in the same publication a year later, Cascio argued that human cognition has always evolved to meet environmental challenges, and that those posed by the internet are no different: the 'skimming' referred to by Carr was a form of attention deficit caused by the immaturity of filter algorithms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cascio further argued that the problem will diminish as human needs exert evolutionary pressure of their own to cause the algorithms to improve. (wikipedia.org)
  • Participants then responded to a variety of questions about the behavior, rated the extent to which the behavior was performed of the actor's own free will, and reported their broad beliefs in human free will. (databasefootball.com)
  • This finding means, from an evolutionary vantage point, life's origin most likely did not take place at hydrothermal vents, thus, negating one more naturalistic scenario. (reasons.org)
  • Question of the Week: Atheists keep telling me that homochirality is not a problem for naturalistic models for life's origin. (reasons.org)
  • Could my scribblings effectively respond to the resulting work? (culturebot.org)
  • This work used the typical biochemical makeup of nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA, and proteins of hyperthermophiles and thermophiles to determine (from an evolutionary standpoint) the identity of the last universal common ancestor. (reasons.org)
  • Martin Rodbell: How Cells Respond to Signals - Martin Rodbell and his colleagues discovered a mechanism that transformed our understanding of how cells respond to signals. (nih.gov)
  • Today's atheists still think that choosing science is the better path, even though science has left them with many questions, but God is still open to anyone that inquires of Him sincerely. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • In the last article , we witnessed the birth of a new discipline called evolutionary medicine, with the promise of creating new forms of knowledge about health and disease and potentially ushering in novel and improved methods of treatment. (thewire.in)
  • It is easy to see why Stearns was attracted to evolutionary medicine: his previous disciplinary expertise had primed him to tackle precisely the issues that concern this new discipline. (thewire.in)
  • Year 2015's question prompts respondents to ruminate on the potential technological, ethical and even emotional issues that will arise when the first machines start to think independently. (edge.org)
  • The audiences for political communications are also central, necessitating concentration on citizen reactions to political messages, how the general public and voters in democratic systems respond to political messages, and the effects of all types of media and message types. (lu.se)
  • The book begins with a simple question: why do rich capitalist democracies respond so differently to the common pressures they face in the early twenty-first century? (eui.eu)
  • Culture in motion, constrained by practical realities and responding to exogenous inputs, makes history. (brill.com)
  • Being responsive and observant makes for evolutionary prowess. (culturebot.org)
  • What evolutionary force makes rounded lobes better for white oak trees and pointy ones better for red oak and pin oak? (bit-player.org)
  • Maybe the question of why women generate an automatic lubrication response to stimuli that are not necessarily liked or wanted is only relevant when combining it with the question how this may occur. (springer.com)
  • Certainly, most morphological and physiological characters are well-adapted to the environment in which the organism lives, and there is no question about the importance of natural selection in the formation of intricate morphological characters. (blogspot.com)
  • He applies experiments, field studies, and meta-analysis to test evolutionary and psychological theories of cooperation. (vu.nl)
  • Also, brainstorm a list of potential questions in your major field of study. (whitman.edu)
  • Konner, a professor at Emory University, responded by e-mail to executive editor Terence Monmaney's questions. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • Eventually, Stearns teamed up with his Yale University colleague Ruslan Medzhitov, the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology, to write a definitive textbook, Evolutionary Medicine (2018). (thewire.in)
  • Interview questions will mostly derive from your application materials: the personal statement, study or policy proposal, activities, transcript, and letters of recommendation. (whitman.edu)
  • STUDY QUESTION: Do spontaneously conceived (SC) fetuses from subfertile couples show the same signs of cardiac remodeling as those observed after IVF treatments? (bvsalud.org)
  • STUDY QUESTION: Do fetuses from frozen embryo transfer (FET) present signs of cardiac remodeling and suboptimal function similar to those observed in fetuses from fresh embryo transfer (ET)? (bvsalud.org)
  • Secondly, the more you practice, the more comfortable you will feel with answering questions "on the fly" - and ease in the interview setting is an important ingredient for success. (whitman.edu)
  • Brainstorm a list of possible questions, and practice speaking the answers. (whitman.edu)
  • I am also interested in understanding how alpine plant communities respond to climate change. (lu.se)
  • In addition, one could also examine a related question from the past (such as the classification of the various panda bears) to see how questions that were once controversial became more or less settled. (pandasthumb.org)
  • Everything from how single cells in culture respond to their substrate to the way whole organ systems develop and respond to environmental stress. (lu.se)
  • Humanity's unique evolutionary advantage is an absence of innate social proclivities, together with omnivorously learning intelligence. (brill.com)
  • Also, the question, by looking at such things as reproduction, DNA, geographical distribution, and so on, would help students see that multiple lines of evidence are brought to bear on scientific problems. (pandasthumb.org)
  • Jonathan M. responds to PZ, reiterating that he isn't simply critiquing Haeckelian capitulation, and re-explains why the evolutionary funnel model of vertebrate development is wrong. (evolutionnews.org)
  • The Edge Question, which he poses every year to his extended network of exceedingly intelligent friends and clients, is a simple, direct question that seeks to push the boundaries of understanding on a burning scientific issue. (edge.org)
  • Nevertheless, one issue that keeps coming up whenever I mention Plantinga on my Twitter feed is his famous Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN), and so I feel compelled to comment on it, though plenty of other people have already done so in the technical philosophical literature. (blogspot.com)
  • As mentioned in the last article, there are many unanswered questions, chief of which is why some people have an intense "sweet tooth" while others rarely feel the need to eat that extra portion of dessert after dinner. (earlytorise.com)
  • Clues from these and similar questions usually point toward causative factors that may be addressed specifically with therapy. (medscape.com)