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1. " In Leda Cosmides and John Tooby's Evolutionary Psychology: a primer, we learn that our neural circuits were designed by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during the evolutionary history of our species."

Source:   Sardar, Ziauddin. "Our fetish for fake smells" New Statesman (1996) 129.4503 Sept. 11 2000: 25 Google This

2. "... relevant neural circuits, Alper provides a vibrant and engaging personal story of how his explorations led him away from the supernatural to find "God" in the evolutionary history of the brain."

Source:   Noelle, David C. "THE EVOLUTION OF GOD" Free Inquiry 20.1 Dec. 22 1999: 65 Google This

3. " The first suggests that competition increases toward the equator, generating increased species richness via increased adaptive specialization over evolutionary time scales (Dobzhansky 1950, Williams 1964, and see Pianka 1966)."

Source:   TAYLOR, PETER H.,GAINES, STEVEN D. "CAN RAPOPORT'S RULE BE RESCUED? MODELING CAUSES OF THE LATITUDINAL GRADIENT IN SPECIES RICHNESS" Ecology 80.8 Dec. 1 1999: 2474 Google This

4. " Some evidence from the paleontological record showed a close relationship, even suggesting that it was an early member of this group of species with a common evolutionary ancestry."

Source:   . "Bones of Ground-Based Ape Unearthed" USA Today (Magazine) 128.2661 June 1 2000: 11 Google This

5. " Consequently, as is the case for other communities with an evolutionary history of recurrent disturbances, we follow Barton's suggestion (1993) that trade-offs associated with disturbance-related strategies should be included in models that interpret species distributions in terms of resource-allocation patterns."

Source:   ZAVALA, M. A.,ESPELTA, J. M.,RETANA, JAVIER. "Constraints and Trade--Offs in Mediterranean Plant Communities: The Case of Holm Oak--Aleppo Pine Forests" Botanical Review 66.1 Jan. 1 2000: 119 Google This

6. " Because the derived state evolved later in evolutionary history than the ancestral state, those species that possess the derived state should be more closely related to each other than to any other members of the group."

Source:   RAIKOW, ROBERT J.,BLEDSOE, ANTHONY H. "Phylogeny and Evolution of the Passerine Birds" BioScience 50.6 June 1 2000: 487 Google This

7. " Patterson is betting on it. Evolution--as just about every reputable scientist understands it--is about each species developing its own best way to survive."

Source:   Hanly, Elizabeth. "Listening to Koko: a gorilla who speaks her mind" Commonweal 131.12 June 18 2004: 14-17 Google This

8. " Oscines are an evolutionary success, comprising about half of the more than 9,000 species of birds and filling niches in almost every environment on the planet."

Source:  Weisman, Ronald,Ratcliffe, Laurene. "Relative pitch and the song of black-capped chickadees: chickadees, like people, have a strong sense of relative pitch. These birds use skillful, precise pitch changes to advertise their quality and attract mates" American Scientist 92.6 Nov. 1 2004: 532-540

9. " As noted above, evolutionary biology has demonstrated that all living species have been selected for survival in terms of their success in passing their genes into the future."

Source:   Wisman, Jon D. "The scope and promising future of social economics" Review of Social Economy 61.4 Dec. 1 2003: 425-446 Google This

10. " In a companion study, Francis (2004) shows how scaling analysis can be used to detect evolutionary changes in cnida size and shape by comparing homologous cnida populations from different anemone tissues and species."

Source:   Kramer, Andrew,Francis, Lisbeth. "Predation resistance and nematocyst scaling for Metridium senile and M. farcimen" Biological Bulletin 207.2 Oct. 1 2004: 130-141 Google This

11. " To account for the sensitivities in newborn infants, we suggest there is already a history of interaction between a genetically initiated, overelaborated neural substrate and the normally invariantly occurring critical, species-specific experience (in this case, human speech)."

Source:   Werker, Janet F.,Tees, Richard C. "INFLUENCES ON INFANT SPEECH PROCESSING: Toward a New Synthesis" Annual Review of Psychology Jan. 1 1999: 509-510 Google This

12. " As noted earlier, our evolutionary history has provided us with no inhibitions against destroying our habitats, other species or other human beings, and no such inhibitions will come to us from our biology."

Source:   Rees, William E. "Is humanity fatally successful?" Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis 30-31 Jan. 1 2002: 67-101 Google This

13. " The common trunk of the evolutionary tree became a visual representation of Darwinian evolutionary theory, which emphasizes the common biological nature of, and the origin humans share with, all living species."

Source:   Rozzi, Ricardo. "The Reciprocal Links between Evolutionary-Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics" BioScience 49.11 Nov. 1 1999: 911 Google This

14. " Wolpoff, long known for his views that human evolution over the past 2 million years has taken place within a single evolutionary lineage, argues for an evolutionary species concept, thus placing all members of our ancestral lineage within the evolutionary species Homo sapiens."

Source:   Relethford, John H. "Paleoanthropology, 2d ed" Human Biology 71.6 Dec. 1 1999: 1016 Google This

15. "... characteristic of every species is adaptive--that is, each characteristic has enhanced reproductive success." No responsible evolutionary psychologist would make such an all-inclusive claim."

Source:   Turpin, Jeff P.,Feinberg, Betty. "Lost and found" Natural History 113.8 Oct. 1 2004: 12-13 Google This

16. " Both sociobiology, which the evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson of Harvard University introduced in the 1970s, and evolutionary psychology adhere to the idea that every characteristic of every species is adaptive that is, each characteristic has enhanced reproductive success."

Source:   Gordon, Deborah M. "Dad's not lost: but his steadfast refusal to ask for directions--despite the jokes--need not be explained as an evolutionary trait of the human male" Natural History 113.6 July 1 2004: 52-56 Google This

17. "... evolutionary novelties only appear once and thus define a group or dade of all the species that inherit the new character by descent from the hypothetical common ancestor."

Source:   Bowler, Peter J. "Life Issues: Its Origin, Rarity and Sometimes Artful Arrangement" American Scientist 88.2 Mar. 1 2000: 169 Google This

18. " Evolutionary biology puts the human species in its evolutionary place, as one species (albeit with some extraordinary intellectual features) among others, evolved both structurally and behaviorally from common ancestors over hundreds of millions of years."

Source:   FOSTER, CAROLINE. "The Limits to Low Fertility: A Biosocial Approach" Population and Development Review 26.2 June 1 2000: 209 Google This

19. " Godt and Hamrick conclude that "much of the genetic diversity and its distribution among species is due to the unique evolutionary history of each species." Thus, it..."

Source:   Williams, David G. "Population Biology of Grasses" BioScience 49.8 Aug. 1 1999: 667-670 Google This

20. " These overwhelming anthropogenic sources of environmental degradation may have introduced greater variation in certain life stages than was present over evolutionary time, thus confounding the life history strategy of the species."

Source:   WISDOM, MICHAEL J.,MILLS, L. SCOTT,DOAK, DANIEL F. "LIFE STAGE SIMULATION ANALYSIS: ESTIMATING VITAL-RATE EFFECTS ON POPULATION GROWTH FOR CONSERVATION" Ecology 81.3 Mar. 1 2000: 628 Google This

21. " INTRODUCTION A central issue in evolutionary ecology is understanding why species differ in their life history traits."

Source:   SANDERCOCK, BRETT K.,BEISSINGER, STEVEN R.,STOLESON, SCOTT H.,MELLAND, REBECCA R.,HUGHES, COLIN R. "SURVIVAL RATES OF A NEOTROPICAL PARROT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATITUDINAL COMPARISONS OF AVIAN DEMOGRAPHY" Ecology 81.5 May 1 2000: 1351 Google This

22. "... with tongue firmly in cheek, terms an "interesting gamble." Unwittingly, we are selecting a "particular evolutionary gambit" that promises to create conditions we will find it troubling to adapt to. The human species will survive; many societies will not."

Source:   Pyne, Stephen J. "Fossil-Fuel Fallout" American Scientist 88.5 Sept. 1 2000: 452 Google This

23. " Quality falls off markedly with Chapter Nine, in which the author turns to a species of fanzine discourse involving infelicitous and careless vocabulary, reckless assumptions, and pathetic efforts to describe certain musical phenomena in empty cliches common to all such writing: "smooth," "rough," "tight," above all..."

Source:   Crowley, Robert. "Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity" International Journal of Comparative Sociology v39.n3 Aug. 1 1998: 329-331 Google This

24. " Neural lateralization of species-specific vocalizations by Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)."

Source:   Arch-Tirado, E.,McCowan, B.,Saltijeral-Oaxaca, J.,de Coronado, I. Zarco,Licona-Bonilla, J. "Development of Isolation-Induced Vocal Behavior in Normal-Hearing and Deafened Guinea Pig Infants" Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 43.2 Apr. 1 2000: 432 Google This

25. " Imagine how much better the approximation could be if more than one such curve were used simultaneously, each with a different curvature and orientation; roughly speaking, that is what neural network models allow."

Source:   BECK, NATHANIEL,KING, GARY,ZENG, LANGCHE. "Improving Quantitative Studies of International Conflict: A Conjecture" American Political Science Review 94.1 Mar. 1 2000: 21 Google This

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