noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the theory of evolution/relativity etc
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According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than light.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biological
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So technology that builds the boats leads directly to biological adaptation and evolution .
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In terms of biological evolution , complex adaptive systems seek patterns and learn from their interactions with the environment.
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The forces which drive technological development have a close parallel in biological evolution .
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Inpart Marx say this task as paralleling what had been done by Darwin for biological evolution .
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The parallel between biological and cultural evolution breaks down at the point of transmission.
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Neither biological nor cultural evolution is any guarantee that we are inevitably moving towards a better world.
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Human cultures can change rapidly because cultural innovation is infinitely faster than biological evolution .
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Evolving software mimics biological evolution with collections of programs competing with each other to see which performs the task best.
cultural
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There are other examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but these are just interesting oddities.
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If we do not view patriarchy as a necessary and inevitable step in human cultural evolution , how did it come about?
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It is our own species that really shows what cultural evolution can do.
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Another problem, related in that reality is ignored, concerns the appropriate use of sources for understanding cultural evolution .
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The parallel between biological and cultural evolution breaks down at the point of transmission.
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Therefore individuals need to possess personalities conformable to the ambient level of cultural evolution .
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Neither biological nor cultural evolution is any guarantee that we are inevitably moving towards a better world.
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The third advance has been the construction of formal models for cultural evolution .
darwinian
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Conversely, opposition to Darwinian evolution , even among scientists, came from the socially conservative.
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Another popular misconception of Darwinian evolution is that its products must be genetically determined because their inheritance depends on genes.
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Not surprising, you might think, in animals designed by Darwinian evolution to find associations in the real world.
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Even though Darwinian evolution is represented as a competitive process, the outcome has often been that animals ended up working with each other.
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He proposed that, therefore, Darwinian evolution is primarily about changes in the genes.
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When these combine they open up a new range of possibilities on which Darwinian evolution can act.
early
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The discovery of Eoraptor has opened a window into the early evolution of theropods.
general
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There is no reason why general trends in evolution shouldn't be reversed.
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In the most general terms, evolution is a tight web and ecology a loose one.
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Very broadly, however, its general evolution is unmistakable.
gradual
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Such continuous variables foster continuous and gradual evolution .
human
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Brown believes the Greys are attempting to speed human evolution and enhance our spirituality by creating humans with some Grey genes.
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To understand the details of human social evolution the nearest point of interspecific comparison lies among the apes.
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For millions of years of human evolution , male eroticism has focused on fertile women.
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But it's also part of inevitable human evolution .
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The social Darwinists or Spencerians of the late nineteenth century viewed human evolution from a unilinear perspective.
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So, in this science fiction view of human evolution , primitive promiscuity was soon replaced by more orderly patterns of existence.
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For each step forward in market technology they took a step backward in human evolution .
natural
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It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory.
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These relationships were a natural consequence of evolution working to produce mutual interactions from which all the species involved would benefit.
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The environment has been created as a result of natural evolution plus man's interference.
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This will give some intuitive idea of the amount of change that we can expect in real natural evolution .
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Both would interfere with the natural process of evolution and natural selection which ensured social progress.
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They fit the animal's information-gathering equipment to particular problems and, presumably, they have been subject to natural selection during evolution .
political
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If humanity has a future at all, the issue of democracy will remain central to its political evolution .
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At the same time, it is proposed to assess the degree of correlation between economic and social developments and political evolution .
social
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This has only been accentuated in the course of social evolution .
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His approach was positivist and rationalist and his general objective was to lay down a theory of social evolution .
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Parker was applying Herbert Spencer's law of social evolution and the current devotion to organization to the denomination.
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Early work on primate social systems yielded the first model of their social evolution in the mid-1960s.
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To understand the details of human social evolution the nearest point of interspecific comparison lies among the apes.
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Jazz is a form of music that came out of a social evolution in black history, and so is rap.
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All value systems are products of human social evolution , and have periodically been declared sacrosanct by various religions.
■ VERB
explain
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The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance.
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If evolution is hill-climbing, how can we explain the evolution of complex structures which would only work when perfected?
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What explains the successful evolution of this system?
lead
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This in turn has led to rapid evolution to fill the vacant or new ecological niches.
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Furthermore, even a mere increase in general intelligence might not necessarily have led to the evolution of language.
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What had to be understood was the process which led to the evolution of society seen in this new light.
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This is a surprise because the leading theories of cosmic evolution say the distribution of galaxies should be random.
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It can lead to the evolution of animals that can not reproduce, and to others that kill their own kind.
teach
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This year, the state Legislature spent months debating a bill that would have banned the teaching of evolution as fact.
trace
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But the task of this chapter, of tracing the evolution of learning and memory-like phenomena in non-human animals, is done.
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The result is deeply layered, complex works tracing that evolution in its historical perspective.
understand
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Bateson now argued that the direct study of variation was the only way of trying to understand how evolution actually works.
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Another problem, related in that reality is ignored, concerns the appropriate use of sources for understanding cultural evolution .
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Our lives are too short to understand the evolution of other beings in such detail.
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Just as computers will break free of the need for people to understand them, so evolution will drive the process.
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Deplorable though that seems, such acts help to understand the evolution of behaviour.
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The answer is that it provides us with a way to understand evolution as a gradual, cumulative process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The next chapter describes the evolution of the International Monetary System.
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The process of biological evolution has taken billions of years.
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The table below shows the evolution of the English alphabet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cultural and social anthropology was then concerned with the evolution of human society and culture.
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Deplorable though that seems, such acts help to understand the evolution of behaviour.
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Neither found Darwin's detailed theory of adaptive evolution very useful.
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Only by involving every group in the evolution of these structures can problems be avoided.
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The Berlin Philharmonic, founded in 1882, has grown up in tandem with the evolution of the star conductor.
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The extent and nature of migration is discussed with reference to the evolution of local labour markets.
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The genetic theory postulates two modes of evolution .
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This ability to live off poor vegetation is likely to have been crucial in the evolution of the mountain goat.