adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the evolutionary scale (= the way in which animals have developed over time from simple ones to more complicated and more intelligent ones )
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Birds are much lower on the evolutionary scale than dogs.
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biologist
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Secondly, evolutionary biologists have tested their theories by searching for expected patterns of behaviour across different human cultures.
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Again and again in recent years evolutionary biologists have found themselves returning to the theme of parasites.
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Food for thought on a wet day for both the developmental and evolutionary biologist .
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In the 1970s evolutionary biologists realized that species do not change much.
biology
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The crucial question for evolutionary biology is where the balance is struck between signalling real information about your state and signalling misinformation.
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But after the Council, the Church had opened itself increasingly to the insights of modern psychology and evolutionary biology .
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The rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century crystallized the intellectual and political imperatives of evolutionary biology .
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Here, parexcellence, is the meeting of the ways for developmental and evolutionary biology .
change
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What undoubtedly stimulated great evolutionary changes in vertebrate history was the emergence of the first amniote egg.
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It follows from all this that natural selection can not be the sole explanation of evolutionary change .
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First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change .
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The relevance of this little piece of history is considerable, we are effectively going through just such an evolutionary change today.
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Such a unit of goodness has been defined as the result of the slightest favourable evolutionary change that could occur.
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When these two separately evolved features came together, some interesting evolutionary changes became possible.
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Drugs, too, lead to evolutionary change .
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One qualification is that some evolutionary changes occur by chance, without natural selection.
development
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The change appears to be a genuine evolutionary development that has taken place with unusual rapidity.
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One can explain many apparently strange human characteristics by pointing to their value for survival at various stages of evolutionary development .
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Ethology has always been profoundly concerned with evolutionary development , with phylogeny.
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Both were escaping from an historicist notion of evolutionary development , traditional to their disciplines.
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This evolutionary development was not the result of the growing significance of natural rights doctrines.
event
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Were metazoans part of that evolutionary event ?
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One implication of the neutral theory is that we can use molecular changes as a kind of clock to measure evolutionary events .
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They were called the chordates, and started a momentous chain of evolutionary events .
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There is time for many cultural evolutionary events in each generation.
history
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The evolutionary history of Figure 4 is a reconstruction.
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And always, wherever they went, the animals were tame because they had never in their evolutionary history encountered human predators.
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Psychological explanations may be to the point here, or speculations about the evolutionary history of the faculties in question.
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We know that Mars underwent extensive internal melting early in its evolutionary history .
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They will find anatomical and physiological features which are the product of an evolutionary history .
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Figure 4 shows one particular evolutionary history consisting of no more than 29 generations.
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The book in other ways also reflects how little they had yet formulated a detailed evolutionary history of society.
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Every evolutionary history consists of a particular pathway, or trajectory, through genetic space.
ladder
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Rather than drawing some evolutionary ladder or tree, the best representation is a sort of multi-twigged bush.
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As we descend the evolutionary ladder , our behaviour becomes, increasingly extreme.
path
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On the other hand, the soft parts of most dinosaurs took the right evolutionary path .
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Information from the planetary probes indicates that all the terrestrial planets have undergone differentiation, but they have followed different evolutionary paths .
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Is it possible that the two planets started out similar to each other and followed divergent evolutionary paths ?
pressure
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But to the ethologist, every species is fascinating - the end-point of millions of years of complex evolutionary pressures .
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It is therefore hard to see personal identification as the main evolutionary pressure leading to the famous black and white pattern.
process
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In theory, there is no limit to this evolutionary process of self-development.
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This evolutionary process will be different for each company.
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Social selection is undoubtedly one of the main evolutionary processes responsible for the emergence of ... behavioural characteristics.
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She saw his physical symptoms as evidence that he was trying unsuccessfully to apply the brakes on a natural evolutionary process .
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The former was essential to the evolutionary process , as individuals competed for resources.
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The one exception to this evolutionary process will be in new plants or divisions-the so-called greenfield sites.
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However, for a variety of reasons animals become less similar as the evolutionary process continues and molecule patterns begin to differ.
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It is quite possible that the evolutionary process may continue during that time.
progress
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An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
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Victorian scholars were divided in their views of the precise nature and order of the stages of man's evolutionary progress .
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Yet this view implied, or rather was explicitly based in Comte and Spencer, on a historical view of evolutionary progress .
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If evolutionary progress had had to rely on single-step selection, it would never have got anywhere.
scale
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How coral colonies grow Tearing itself apart Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms.
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This sub-order, which is further down the evolutionary scale . includes the Tarsiidae, or tarsiers.
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Birds are much lower on the evolutionary scale , which is another criterion in determining what we consider cruelty to animals.
scheme
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Cuvier seemed to contemporaries to have had little trouble in demolishing the evolutionary scheme of his contemporary Lamarck.
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In this, Ancient Society resembled the other evolutionary schemes for the history of mankind which we have just noted.
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Many aspects of the evolutionary scheme which Marx and Engels present would now be unacceptable to anthropologists.
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Less acceptable today, surely, is the evolutionary scheme and cultural prejudice that form one aspect of Feuerbach's historical thesis.
sequence
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The first such questions arises over the specific status of the evolutionary sequence which is being put forward.
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I even had a picture of the evolutionary sequence of bodies leading up to my insects by slow degrees from a dot ancestor.
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Fisher imagined the following evolutionary sequence .
theory
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Social psychologists, apart from those educated in ethology, have no evolutionary theory .
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Indeed it does, and that is exactly what the evolutionary theory would predict.
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Secondly, the Fabians pressed evolutionary theory in service of a collectivist ideal.
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They were wrong both about how to interpret Genesis and in thinking that evolutionary theory was unimportant to modern science.
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The sources of extrapolation theory , like those of evolutionary theory generally, are numerous.
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It is an increasingly influential idea in evolutionary theory , and one that will recur throughout the book.
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Other evolutionary theories of ageing have been proposed.
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There are two kinds of connection between evolutionary theory and ethics: one normative, and one explanatory.
time
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Arms races are run in evolutionary time , rather than on the timescale of individual lifetimes.
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In this light of evolutionary time , ecology can be seen as one long dress rehearsal.
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This process of civilisation has, within the vastness of evolutionary time , hardly started.
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This species, over evolutionary time , has lost its worker caste altogether.
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Nevertheless, it is likely that birds have selected for sweeter fruits through evolutionary time .
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evolutionary biology
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an evolutionary process
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He also uses the idea of mankind as food to emphasise the evolutionary truth of man as one more source of protein.
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He thinks they have reached an evolutionary dead end.
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In fact, without evolutionary and learning pressures, the society of mind in a brain would turn into a bureaucracy.
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It follows from all this that natural selection can not be the sole explanation of evolutionary change.
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Spontaneous social orders, by contrast, are evolutionary in nature and are not the product of rational design.
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The evolutionary history of Figure 4 is a reconstruction.
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The one exception to this evolutionary process will be in new plants or divisions-the so-called greenfield sites.
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The sequence adjacent to the insertion site is very well conserved over large evolutionary distances such as between fungi, algae and bacteria.