Evolutionary

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"Evolutionary" in a Sentence (13 examples)

With this as background I turn now to an account of the present state of evolutionary biology.

Darwin developed the evolutionary theory.

The last few decades have brought significant changes to evolutionary thought.

"Gigantism is an evolutionary survival strategy, especially for herbivorous animals, because size is a form of defense against predators," Apaldetti said.

“Because this species is so commonly exploited for food and the pet industry, it’s the one that gets released the most often,” said Brad Shaffer, UCLA distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science.

Evolutionary psychologists mostly focus on what makes us so much alike.

I'm fascinated by the evolutionary history of the louse.

Evolutionary thinking, the understanding that species change with the passage of time, has its roots in antiquity.

Evolutionary anthropology is based in natural science and social science.

Evolutionary psychology is largely a pseudoscience, as it cannot be measured or tested and is not based on experimental results.

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The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.

It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

The basic elements of an evolutionary growth theory are discussed in Section II.

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