Where did human beings come from? According to Darwin's theory of evolution(进化论), land animals evolved from fish. But which fish? Chinese paleontologist(古生物学家)Zhang Miman believes she has found the answer after studying fish fossils(化石)for over 60 years. This has won her a United...
Darwin’s theory of evolution holds that living things change and adapt to their environment and that present - day species (including human beings) are descended from earlier species through modification by natural selection. The theory has been accepted by scientists for nearly 100 years, Weis sa...
James PatersonDepartment of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley CompanyAmerican Journal of Physical AnthropologyPaterson, J. (1990) Review of A Theory of Human and Primate Evolution by C.P. Groves. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 81:...
There is evidence that menopause is adaptive in humans2,3. Although the pathways and mechanisms by which menopause evolves remain debated, the most well-studied and well-supported theories focus on kin selection3and the balance of evidence suggests that menopause in humans evolved because of a com...
Evolutionary understanding of social behavior: theory provides a biological basis for understanding the social behavior and cultural evolution of human beings and other social animals. This has a far-reaching impact on social science research, such as social structure, cultural inheritance and behavioral...
of many high and middle school students. The changes of physical strength, emotion and intelligence are sinusoidal, with the periodicity of "high tide period critical day low tide period". This law is the biological rhythm of human beings, also known as the three biological rhythms of human ...
In considering the theory of human evolution it is interesting to note that some very well known scientists have actually suggested that the line of human evolution is far from clear. For example, in 1990, Richard Leakey himself said that, "If pressed about man's ancestry, I would have to...
In fact, Kahan ([2014b]) found that the probability of giving the correct response (true) on “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals” was positively and strongly correlated with OSI only for less religious individuals; for the highly religious, there...
Evolutionary game theory has been used to study the viability of cooperation in a predatory world. While previous studies have helped to identify robust st... M Macy - 《Sociological Methods & Research》 被引量: 110发表: 1996年 Natural Selection and Social Learning in Prisoner's Dilemma Evoluti...
Evolution is fascinating because it attempts to answer one of the most basic human questions: Where did life, and human beings, come from? The theory of evolution proposes that life and humans arose through a natural process. A very large number of people do not believe this, which is somet...