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Evolutionarily speaking, we are hardwired to form relationships and strongly motivated to feel liked and feel like we belong.
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Evolutionarily, dashing around at a mad and madder pace was something we did when the neighboring village of cavemen invaded with clubs, or when the tiger was chasing us or the river overflowed its banks and threatened to drown us.
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Evolutionarily, historically and cross-culturally, they point out, girls in the fifteen- to nineteen-year-old range would be most actively competing for mates.
Scientific American Mind - The "Bitch" Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other William Harryman 2009
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Evolutionarily speaking, this is probably because mates with dissimilar MHC genes produce healthier offspring with stronger immune systems.
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and dissimilar major histocompatibility complexes Edward Willett 2007
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Species like the bumblebee bat and the pygmy hippopotamus will be protected under the Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (Edge) project.
Archive 2007-01-14 Bill Crider 2007
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- Evolutionarily speaking, women might have had a tendency to eat more/maintain more body fat due to differences in the tasks of men and women
Why Are Women More Likely to Be Obese Than Men? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Evolutionarily, the Neanderthals and the Cro-Magnons and everybody else had a little stress, otherwise we wouldn ` t be here.
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Evolutionarily speaking we are just a blip, sitting on the edge of a precipice.
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Evolutionarily speaking, it makes sense that a man would have to be hypervigilant about men's faces; otherwise he would miss the first hint that another guy is going to punch him.
Gray Matters 2008
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Evolutionarily, an efficient junk-elimination system would be expected to greatly slow the rate of evolution, and could increase the risk of extinction, but the question remains of why short-term selective advantage of junk elimination does not lead most organisms into an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
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