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That is, everywhere and always I predict Malthusian stagnation because deviations are not evolutionarily stable.
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It's a very evolutionarily hard-wired response that comes from a primitive need to respond very quickly.
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This aversion is evolutionarily beneficial because they are less likely to eat them and get sick.
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No one argues that they are anything other than evolutionarily driven in species other than man.
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It suggests that people's approaches to co-operation with their fellows are, indeed, evolutionarily stable.
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The disaster call for women and children to evacuate first isn't chivalry, inasmuch as it's evolutionarily smarts.
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Because smiling is evolutionarily contagious and we have a subconscious innate drive to smile when we see one.
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Perhaps the most evolutionarily significant finding, though, is the age at which the matriarchs in the study died.
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The last point is crucial to the theory of evolutionarily stable strategies.
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But if it results in extra offspring (or, at least, if not competing guarantees no offspring), then it is worth it, evolutionarily speaking.
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Evolutionarily speaking, this added delay makes a certain amount of sense.
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That should tell us evolutionarily there was something good in that.
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It is a nice irony, given the traditional association of the naturist position with eugenic arguments, that if variation in intelligence really is caused by underlying genetic variation, then the dull are as evolutionarily fit as the clever.
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