The phrase "account of evolution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a narrative or explanation regarding the process of evolution, often in a scientific or educational context.
Example: "The documentary provided a comprehensive account of evolution, detailing the various stages of development in different species."
Alternatives: "narrative of evolution" or "description of evolution".
Oscar's father collects and classifies fossils, determined to use them to disprove the Darwinian account of evolution.
But it's impossible to evaluate, because the book's account of evolution doesn't reflect the true state of the science.
This made it hard to fit them into an account of evolution that started with small-brained apes and led, through progressively bigger brains, up to humans.
Democritus' account of evolution survives in the fifth book of De rerum natura, written by a 1st-century-bc Roman poet, Lucretius.
But this is no slavish imitation; Jones weaves the words of the master into a completely fresh account of evolution, and his examples are almost all drawn from 20th-century biology.
Plantinga's case hinges on his claim that on a strict naturalist account of evolution we have "no reason to think that our beliefs have any relation to the truth," including our belief in evolution by natural selection.
To confuse the biblical account of creation with perfectly proper scientific accounts of evolution is, as Archbishop Rowan Williams has said, simply a category mistake.
These days, he regards the books that made him famous — "Sociobiology" and "On Human Nature" (1979) — as flawed accounts of evolution, marred by their uncritical embrace of inclusive fitness.
The credibility of both Democritus' and Darwin's accounts of evolution depends on the assumption that time is real and that its flow has been extraordinarily long.
How are we to reconcile these punctuational bursts with conventional Darwinian accounts of evolution?
The arguments, says Richardson, are "just so" stories, perhaps plausible but lacking in the kind of evidence required by biological accounts of evolution by natural selection.
