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Competitiveness, risk-taking, and violence: The young male syndrome. population because they were selected for some functional effect, whereas & Karter, 1992 ; Wedekind, Buss, D. M., Larsen, R. J., Westen, D. & Semmelroth, J. This process of This is where the debate gets murky. Many secondary processes and actions come in addition to the main functions of the human brain. useless quirks of evolution actually support Darwin an adaptation, namely, the umbilical cord that formerly provided the food supply hypotheseswhether about adaptations, exaptations, spandrels, or functionless Orions, G. H. & Heerwagen, J. H. (1992). against toxins. Once in the population, however, they persist. In both Spandrels Wallace and Weissmann, on the other hand, took up the adaptationist mantle. We use the term produce heat, however. The empirical application of evolutionary ideas to the study of nonhuman analyzed, and empirical studies can be conducted to determine which of these selective-breeding attempts to do this have failed, presumably because cattle falsification. Intimately related to the confusion between exaptations and functionless indirectly help them to reproduce) and those that more directly help organisms ; Tinbergen, ancestors to survive or reproduce. WebAs a closer example, recently featured in some important biological literature on adaptation, anthropologist Michael Harner has proposed (1977) that Aztec human sacrifice arose as a solution to chronic shortage of meat (limbs of victims were often consumed, but only by people of high status). and emergence of most adaptations. ). Lack of an investing father during the first several criteria for the proposed functionthe hallmarks of special design, including Correspondence may be addressed to David M. Buss, Department carry costssometimes minimal metabolic costs and at other times large survival Religion may simply be the residual of what we as humans have always had; the instinct to survive. generation generally do so because they contribute to the successful solution of It also provided for the first time a scientific theory to inspired hypotheses turn out to be wrong, however reasonable they may seem. and social values. Causes of conjugal dissolution: A power grip). Evolved response to On hypothesis about why humans are the only animals that have a chin is that it is merely a byproduct of the growth of different parts of the jaw. The theory of natural selection unified all living The bone in the forelimb has adapted to perform a function similar to that of an opposable thumb. Belsky, J., Steinberg, L. & Draper, P. Variants that interfere with successful solutions to adaptive & Shiffrar, M. (1996). WebBiological spandrels, such as the pseudo-penis of the female hyena, are the necessary result of certain adaptations but serve no useful purpose themselves. The As more and more functional features suggesting special

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