Sentence examples for a barrier to evolution from inspiring English sources

For our study, we identified, diagnosed, and dealt with a barrier to evolution acceptance that was prevalent in our classrooms.

The gain or loss of connections might be a barrier to evolution if the changes were to interfere with existing biology.

Of course, the substitution of an even more chemically dissimilar amino acid might have generated an intractable barrier to evolution.

This in itself does not explain why eukaryotes evolved as they did, it merely removes the energetic barrier to evolution; but it does explain why prokaryotes do not tend to become eukaryotic.

Periods of intense cold have also been suggested as a barrier to the evolution of multicellular life.

However, research suggests that affective factors may serve as a barrier to the development of knowledge of evolution, which in turn could constrain acceptance of the theory (Brem et al. 2003; Smith 1994).

The jargon that can become a barrier to engaging students in evolution in particular (Mead and Scott 2010a) is also removed, as are misleading anthropomorphic metaphors like "wanting" to change (Sinatra et al. 2008).

For example, the standard periodization for post-embryonic ontogeny in arthropods is a barrier to evolutionary analyses of molt-timing evolution because the conventional periodization is in terms of molt-to-molt intervals subsequent to hatching, which are then grouped into stages (larva, pupa, and imago for insects), irrespective of differences in the timing of the molts (Minelli et al. 2006).

Some authors note that rejection of evolution can serve as a barrier to developing knowledge about it (Coburn 1994; Coburn Scharmann 1990).

Whatever the intervention, we hope this gives instructors creative insight to how they may address barriers to evolution acceptance in their classroom.

Nonetheless, developmental constraints may limit variation, but need not represent absolute barriers to evolution.