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And anthropology is not the only human science to have been infused with evolutionary theory.
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Traditional evolutionary theory suggests that one feature -- a tail for instance -- would slowly evolve over time.
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Connor Wood has an interesting essay on his belief in why some religious people reject evolutionary theory.
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For instance, the evolutionary theory bases its evidence on the fossil record.
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Class.com, for example, is considering different biology classes that stress creationism or evolutionary theory to appeal to Christian fundamentalists or secular families, respectively.
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Standard evolutionary theory says that females should generally be the choosy sex because a female's maximum reproductive output is more limited than a male's.
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Like much evolutionary theory, this is just applied common sense.
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The topics of conversation included evolutionary theory, libertarian philosophy, and the anthropic principle, which holds that observations about the universe depend on the existence of a consciousness that can observe.
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It is based on a piece of evolutionary theory called the founder effect, which shows how the isolation of small populations from larger ones can accelerate evolutionary change, because a small population's average characteristics are likely to differ from those of the larger group from which it is drawn.
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Game theory is used to understand how decisions are made in fields as diverse as economics and evolutionary biology, and even for a game as simple as coin-flipping it can yield a strategy that gives each player the best chance of winning (or, at least, of coming out even).
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