Sentence examples for an evolutionary trend from inspiring English sources
The phrase "an evolutionary trend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual change or development in a particular direction within a biological or social context.
Example: "The fossil record shows an evolutionary trend towards larger body sizes in this species over millions of years."
Alternatives: "a developmental pattern" or "a progressive change".
Debbie Walsh, director of the Centre for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, sees the rise of political daughters as "part of an evolutionary trend" in how women come to power.
According to a "simple mathematical model" published this week, the rising rate of caesarean sections could be explained by an evolutionary trend whereby the procedure itself perpetuates small pelvises in women.
In addition, most licensable cores are on an evolutionary trend, meaning that the changes from one generation to another are small compared to a new processor design.
Only historical data or statistically rigorous inferences about history, and not a simple comparison of living species, can provide convincing support for claims of an evolutionary trend.
For an evolutionary trend to become established, selection of either more and more paedomorphic or peramorphic traits must take place along an environmental gradient.
A "good" fossil record would be a series of fossils from different ages documenting an "evolutionary trend" through geological time, the "lineage….of progenitors" wished for by Darwin.
It is currently unknown whether the limb proportions observed in Hypnomys and C. tamarani are shared by other insular rodents, and are consequently a result of an insular evolutionary trend.
Like multicellularity, increases in mean and maximal organismal size have occurred multiple times in the evolution of uni- and multicellular life forms (Carroll 2001), which has often been discussed as a general evolutionary trend toward an increase of body size.
Their presence also highlights an important evolutionary trend within duplicidentates that is tightly correlated with the development of unilateral hypsodonty; that is, in evolutionary sequence, the enlargement of the metaconule, deepening of the crescentic valley, and finally, the development of a lingual hypostria.
This result may suggest an opposite evolutionary trend between PTI and ETI families that are respectively lost and gained in the course of evolution.
Particularly interesting are the positions 754 and 755 of Apaf-1 (Figs. 4 and 10) where a clear evolutionary trend of emergence of an aspartate duplet can be seen.
