Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

By C. Zimmer. 2001

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The problem of student acceptance of evolution (2003, background): “…(see discussion in Minkoff, 1983; Ruse, 1988), i.e. what some have termed the ‘evolutionary’ or ‘modern’ synthesis (Dobzhansky, 1937; Huxley, 1942; Mayr and Provine, 1998; Zimmer, 2001), has come new information about evolution (as from study of molecular evolution, e.g. Li and Graur, 1991).”
The Psychobiological Model: Towards a New Theory of Computer-Mediated Communication Based on Darwinian Evolution (2004, background): “…of sweat glands on the human skin is one of the highest in the animal kingdom and is probably due to the fact that a large proportion of our evolution occurred in the hot African savannas, where we likely walked a lot and thus tended to overheat (Boaz and Almquist 1997, Wilson 2000, Zimmer 2001).”
Media richness or media naturalness? The evolution of our biological communication apparatus and its influence on our behavior toward E-communication tools (2005, background): “Indeed, there is evidence that face-to-face communication elements such as certain types of facial expressions, oral utterances, and body language expressions, even when used in isolation, evoke physiological arousal in human beings [37], [38], [68].”