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In The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, by Tim Flannery (Grove, $16), a Tocqueville of American biogeography bravely tackles the continent's last 65 million years, surveying an evolutionary work in progress in which waves of invaders adapt and become extinct, clearing the way for new immigrant species.
Dr. Kays, however, says that he is not a fan of the name, in part because the animals are "mostly coyote and a little bit of wolf," but also because the Eastern coyote may be less a finished product deserving of a name and more an evolutionary work in progress.
It was a fantastic album that topped sales charts and managed to be both quintessentially Musgraves and an evolutionary work that twisted and bent the country genre in new ways.
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So I sat beside her, cross-legged with a sei whale rib arcing my lap, too, a piece of evolutionary work curved and honed, with a slight kink to it, and a club-like thickness at the end.
Rather, as Tim Flannery reminds us in his new book, North America is a 65-million-year evolutionary work in progress, a series of contingencies, causal forces, drastic upheavals and transitional phases, amid which can be seen a single recurrent theme: the frontier.
Owen Jones (see e.g. 2000; 2005), who believes that Law will benefit from the application of evolutionary psychology, champions Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer's (2000) widely discredited view that rape is an adaptation as exemplary evolutionary work (see de Waal 2000, Coyne and Berry 2000, Coyne 2003, Lloyd 2003, Vickers and Kitcher 2003, and Kimmel 2003).
Acknowledging contradictions in Darwin's thought and writings—"paradoxical" in Desmond and Moore's words nevertheless, they find "a moral passion firing his evolutionary work " (p. xviii), so much so that "human evolution wasn't his last piece in the evolution jigsaw; it was the first.
In this case, why it is the sperm and not the egg cells that have been specialized for this part of the writing is not specified by the theory, but one may wonder if the excessive number of sperm compared to the number of eggs enables this excessive writing activity, for example by providing enough cells so that some will be functional despite intensive evolutionary work causing a high error rate.
Still, some scientists applaud the efforts of Dr. Thornhill and Dr. Palmer to refocus attention on rape as a sexual crime and to link it to other evolutionary work on male and female sexual behavior.
Students would do well to search the literature for evolutionary work relevant to their fields of interest.
It's strange how it all came together, but I am able to do some evolutionary work as well as immunology and genetics.
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The phrase "an evolutionary work " functions as a noun phrase, where "evolutionary" modifies "work". It typically describes a project, creation, or process that is undergoing continuous development and change. As Ludwig points out, this suggests something in progress rather than complete. Examples show it used in scientific, artistic, and general contexts.
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