“As a rule, sexually selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent --and thus more vulnerable to dysfunctions-- than other phenotypes. This contributes… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Mutation load has been proposed as a likely explanation for the persistence of common, heritable, and harmfulmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.” — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition.… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“All biological and artificial mechanisms -no matter how well designed- are vulnerable to malfunctions, failures, and breakdowns. Even if developmental processes are… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“...agriculture and its attending social changes have likely increased selection for traits such as self-control, lower time discounting, and tolerance for routine… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“As a rule, sexually selected traits tend to be more condition-dependent --and thus more vulnerable to dysfunctions-- than other phenotypes. This contributes to explain… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“The evolved preference for sugary and fatty foods (a functional mechanism) may lead to obesity because of a mismatch with modern nutrition (a maladaptive… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Mutation load has been proposed as a likely explanation for the persistence of common, heritable, and harmfulmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.” — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition. In evolutionary… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“All biological and artificial mechanisms -no matter how well designed- are vulnerable to malfunctions, failures, and breakdowns. Even if developmental processes are canalized against… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Fear of heights begins to manifest as soon as infants start crawling; fears of animals and monsters first appear when toddlers begin to move… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“...agriculture and its attending social changes have likely increased selection for traits such as self-control, lower time discounting, and tolerance for routine over the… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become damaged or… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
