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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. " In her new book, "The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World," anthropologist Helen Fisher says women have skills that evolved millions of years ago when human ancestors lived in small hunter-gatherer bands."

Source:   McCain, Robert Stacy. "Anthropologist sees women hitting their stride" Washington Times May 26 1999: 2 Google This

3. " In his view, jealousy--unlike some adaptive behaviors rooted in the hunter-gatherer era--remains a positive force in the modern age. "Properly used," he writes, "jealousy..."

Source:   Dugatkin, Lee Alan. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" Wilson Quarterly 24.2 Mar. 22 2000: 129 Google This

4. " Shepard again argues that the hunter-gatherers set the standard from which we have deviated, the way of life to which our ontogeny was fitted by natural selection."

Source:   Sale, Kirkpatrick. "Nature and Madness" Nation v267.n11 Oct. 12 1998: 28-33 Google This

5. " Recently, Professor Pinker has become an outspoken defender of the controversial new research tradition known as "evolutionary psychology," which sees the mind as an assembly of many functionally specialized parts--often called "modules" or "Darwinian algorithms"--that were shaped by natural selection among our ancestors."

Source:   . "Mind, Morality, and Evolution" Free Inquiry 20.2 Mar. 22 2000: 55 Google This

6. " The final round of the dialogue involved the preparation of an informational newsletter, the development of a questionnaire that modeled the decision problem facing the city council, and the design of a community workshop to engage participants in a deliberative, problem-solving, exercise."

Source:   Weeks, Edward C. "The Practice of Deliberative Democracy: Results from Four Large-Scale Trials" Public Administration Review 60.4 July 1 2000: 360 Google This

7. " Darwinians claim that natural selection of adaptive random variations (modifications in the organism now associated with genetic mutations, which Darwin knew nothing about) can explain life's design all by itself -- if given enough time."

Source:   Haught, John F. "EVOLUTION & GOD'S HUMILITY - How theology can embrace Darwin" Commonweal 127.2 Jan. 28 2000: 12 Google This

8. "... to solve the mind-body problem, "rather as the cat's mind is not up to discovering relativity theory or evolution by natural selection." McGinn insists that there does exist a fact of the matter,..."

Source:   Prusak, Bernard G. "MIND MATTERS" Commonweal 127.10 May 19 2000: 28 Google This

9. " Given the uncertainty, localization, and cyclical nature of boreal resources, mobility is arguably the most integral adaptive feature among hunter-gatherers in the northern forest (Nelson, 1973, 1983; Riches, 1982; Steegman, 1983)."

Source:   Natcher, David C. "Implications of fire policy on native land use in the Yukon Flats, Alaska" Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 32.4 Aug. 1 2004: 421-442 Google This

10. " Technological advancements have made our lives sedentary, but we still possess the efficient metabolism of our hunter-gatherer ancestors."

Source:   Mayur, Kumudini. "Obesity: A Growing Problem" Futurist 33.8 Oct. 1 1999: 14 Google This

11. " Finally, the study of food sharing within the context of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle may help us better understand the evolution of cooperation and sociality among our hominid ancestors."

Source:   Gurven, Michael,Hill, Kim,Kaplan, Hillard,Hurtado, Ana,Lyles, Richard. "Food Transfers Among Hiwi Foragers of Venezuela: Tests of Reciprocity" Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 28.2 June 1 2000: 171

12. " There is no anthropological evidence of genetic differences in intelligence or in capacity for culture, nor is there any evidence that the average member of an industrial society today has any larger a brain than her hunter-gatherer ancestor of 30,000 years ago."

Source:   PUTTERMAN, LOUIS. "Can an Evolutionary Approach to Development Predict Post-War Economic Growth?" Journal of Development Studies 36.3 Feb. 1 2000: 1 Google This

13. " For example, in 1994, Eaton et al. argued that whereas modern women are genetically similar to their hunter-gatherer ancestors, their relevant lifestyle and reproductive biology..."

Source:   Ellertson, Charlotte. "Is Menstruation Obsolete? How Suppressing Menstruation Can HelpWomen Who Suffer from Anemia, Endometriosis, or PMS" Studies in Family Planning 30.4 Dec. 1 1999: 358 Google This

14. " There are no early ancestors of man who exist today, and today's hunter-gatherers, even the most remotely located, are neither remnants of the evolutionary past nor pristine evidence of what humans were like forty thousand years ago and more."

Source:   Kleinman, Arthur. "Moral Experience and Ethical Reflection: Can Ethnography Reconcile Them? A Quandary for "The New Bioethics"" Daedalus 128.4 Sept. 22 1999: 69 Google This

15. " As an outsider, Binmore has some telling points to make about anthropological attitudes to hunter-gatherers, and argues reasonably that 'the social contracts of modern hunter-gathering societies are not necessarily a good guide to the social contracts of our prehistoric ancestors'."

Source:   BADCOCK, C.R. "Just playing" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5.4 Dec. 1 1999: 646 Google This

16. " In what Francis calls the "Fred and Barney" story--the names refer to characters in The Flintstones--he recasts the account of the behavior of our hunter-gatherer ancestors invoked by evolutionary psychologists: the men go out hunting while the women stay home cooking and cleaning."

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. " They have solved them through millions of years of evolution, and, although natural selection does not always yield the best solution to a problem, it does yield a workable solution that provides a reasonable starting point for robotic designs."

Source:   RITZMANN, ROY E.,QUINN, ROGER D.,WATSON, JAMES T.,ZILL, SASHA N. "Insect Walking and Biorobotics: A Relationship with Mutual Benefits" BioScience 50.1 Jan. 1 2000: 23 Google This

18. " As an outsider, Binmore has some telling points to make about anthropological attitudes to hunter-gatherers, and argues reasonably that 'the social contracts of modern hunter-gathering societies are not necessarily a good guide to the social contracts of our prehistoric ancestors'."

Source:   BADCOCK, C.R. "Just playing" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5.4 Dec. 1 1999: 646 Google This

19. " In spite of all the rhetoric about the nature of instrumental values, neither Gowdy nor Watkins gives us the least indication of how we can use the hunter-gatherer thesis to solve problems that humankind faces in the world in which we live."

Source:   DeGregori, Thomas R. "Back to the Basics? Answers in Search of Questions [1]" Journal of Economic Issues 34.1 Mar. 1 2000: 183 Google This

20. " Providing informational support to others creates opportunities for helpers to reinforce adaptive strategies for dealing with their own problems and to view their own problems more objectively."

Source:   Roberts, Linda J.,Salem, Deborah,Rappaport, Julian,Toro, Paul A.,Luke, Douglas A.,Seidman, Edward. "Giving and Receiving Help: Interpersonal Transactions in Mutual-Help Meetings and Psychosocial Adjustment of Members [1]" American Journal of Community Psychology 27.6 Dec. 1 1999: 841 Google This

21. " We suggested that these changes were adaptive (Carraway et al., 1996), but to be adaptive the changes must be subject to natural selection which, in turn, requires that older shrews be reproductively active."

Source:   Carraway, Leslie N.,Verts, B. J. "Age-related Fecundity in Four Taxa of Western Shrews" American Midland Naturalist 142.2 Oct. 1 1999: 424 Google This

22. " As Wilson says, the outcome--human group survival--was an adaptive result of natural selection operating on human DNA.(47) Therefore, the morals, the values, the normative principles of affectionate caring are revealed as a function of natural process."

Source:   Derry, Robbin,Fort, Timothy L.,Frederick, William C.,Hauserman, Nancy R. "Nature's place in legal and ethical reasoning: an interactive commentary on William Frederick's Values, Nature and Culture in the American Corporation" American Business Law Journal 36.4 June 22 1999: 633 Google This

23. " For if natural selection is part of the marvelously adaptive nature of all life on earth (see, John Haught's "Evolution and the Humility..."

Source:   . "Of mice, jellyfish & us" Commonweal 127.2 Jan. 28 2000: 5 Google This

24. "... character of the alteration (adaptive only to these unpredictable local circumstances and not inevitably building a "better" elephant in any cosmic or general sense)--flow from the variational basis of natural selection."

Source:   Gould, Stephen Jay. "What does the dreaded "E" word mean, anyway" Natural History 109.1 Feb. 1 2000: 28 Google This

25. " But other researchers say the machine-bred robots are a case study in the power of natural selection as a design tool in the lab and in the natural world. "It is clear that evolution can do things that..."

Source:   Petit, Charles W. "Out of the digital ooze, robotic life" U.S. News & World Report 129.10 Sept. 11 2000: 84 Google This

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