The phrase "agents of evolution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about biology, ecology, or evolutionary theory to refer to entities that influence the process of evolution.
Example: "Natural selection and genetic drift are considered key agents of evolution that shape the diversity of life on Earth."
Alternatives: "drivers of evolution" or "forces of evolution".
This was one of two agents of evolution that Lamarck proposed.
Of course mechanisms thought of as defense might alternatively (or also) aid TEs as beneficial agents of evolution.
So whereas natural selection – or "survival selection," as it is perhaps more accurately described – is explicitly non-agentic, as stressed by its proponents like Coyne and Dawkins, sexual selection relies on minds as agents of evolution.
Viruses actively move between biomes and are thought to be major agents of evolution by virtue of their capacity to operate as vehicles of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) [ 5].
As the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Darwin's champion, Huxley carried on the tradition by writing about the modern synthesis and popularizing Darwin's ideas, especially natural selection as the prime agent of evolution.
In addition, Integral thinking and analysis provides insights into how we are evolving as a species, how that evolution dove-tails with our planet's evolution, and finally, how we collectively (in the broadest sense) begin to realize that each one of us is an agent of evolution.
This is why I began to reenvision the very goal of the spiritual path, seeing the purpose of enlightenment as not merely to transcend the world, as I had been taught, but to transform the world through becoming an agent of evolution itself.
The process of gene duplication in microbes as the agent of evolution of novel gene functions is being studied by many scientific groups today e.g. [ 4- 7].
Darwin's second major work, the 1871 Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, focused in large part on sexual selection, another agent of evolution that he realized was theoretically necessary to explain features like the peacock's tail (Darwin stated in a letter to Asa Grey: "The sight of a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!").
Gordon, K. D. et al. Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the tidally stripped, low metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC).
Humans must now be considered intrinsic agents of landscape evolution, and decisions on how, when and where to place, modify or remove protection structures depend on numerous human inputs, requiring interventions that have an interdisciplinary perspective and are placed in a societal context.
