From an evolutionary perspective, the brain is hardwired to associate an upright position with threat: When you're standing and arguing, adrenaline and the stress hormone cortisol start coursing in an effort to help you flee and the next thing you know, your heart is racing, your voice is rising, and you're suddenly a crazy angry person.
By evolutionary design, we are hard-wired to be sensitive to our environments, empathic to our children's needs and intuitive of our partners' intentions.
Michael Worobey, head Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona and a senior author of the study, said: "It's not the age, it's the birth year that matters.
Descended from a Cretaceous Era giant of the sea, the Mako of today tops out at around 500 pounds—and bears all the hallmarks of evolutionary success.
Deep in our evolutionary past, the ability to make rapid, unconscious categorisations had life-and-death importance.
This actually makes a good deal of evolutionary sense.
'And in evolutionary terms, the only thing that can cause a sensory mismatch like that is a neurotoxin or poison.
Dr Alexandra Alvergne, associate professor in biocultural anthropology at the University of Oxford, says this theory is flawed, and women's periods overlapping is more likely down to chance than an evolutionary adaptation.
The scientific term for this evolutionary trait is pilomotor reflex or piloerection.
'With evolutionary techniques, we evolve the neural networks of the robots,' explains Jacqueline Heinerman, PhD student at VU, in the video.
They explain that from an evolutionary perspective, it was important to have small groups of close-knit social connections when humans were on hunting expeditions and other dangerous stations.
" A recent study claims that eveningness is an evolutionary advancement that marks out "more intelligent individuals.
Co-author Dr Chris Venditti, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Reading, told BBC News: 、Chris VendittiBBC: "The current widespread view is that dinosaurs were reigning strong right up to the impact that hit the Earth - and it's the impact that drove their final extinction," he said.
The findings come from two evolutionary psychologists who challenge the modern view that the more social contact we have the happier we will likely be.
Researchers, led by psychology professor Norman Li from Singapore Management University, used evolutionary psychology to explain why some people are happier than others.
In 2010, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recovered about 60 percent of a Neanderthal genome from fossils found in a Croatian cave.
"From an evolutionary perspective," Cuddy writes, "it is more crucial to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust.
"From an evolutionary perspective," Cuddy writes, "it is more crucial to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust.
From an evolutionary perspective, the brain is hardwired to associate an upright position with threat: When you're standing and arguing, adrenaline and the stress hormone cortisol start coursing in an effort to help you flee and the next thing you know, your heart is racing, your voice is rising, and you're suddenly a crazy angry person.
" He explained the findings in evolutionary terms.
