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The muscles connected to the ears of a human do not develop enough to have the same mobility allowed to monkeys. Arrows show the vestigial structure called Darwin's tubercle. In the context of human evolution, vestigiality involves those traits occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through evolution. Although ...
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species. [1] Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species.
This phenomenon is an automatic-response mechanism that activates even before a human becomes consciously aware that a startling, unexpected or unknown sound has been "heard". [ 2 ] That this vestigial response occurs even before becoming consciously aware of a startling noise would explain why the function of ear-perking had evolved in animals.
This category is for academic journals (including scientific journals) published by the American Psychological Association (APA), including both APA's own journals and those published by APA's Educational Publishing Foundation on behalf of other organizations (e.g., Canadian Psychological Association).
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science; Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research; Journal of European Psychology Students; Journal of Economic Psychology; Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human ...
The American Journal of Psychology is a journal devoted primarily to experimental psychology. It is the first such journal to be published in the English language (though Mind, founded in 1876, published some experimental psychology earlier). AJP was founded by the Johns Hopkins University psychologist Granville Stanley Hall in 1887. This ...
The following is a partial list of social science journals, including history and area studies. There are thousands of academic journals covering the social sciences in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past.
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