The phrase "are important in evolution" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing factors, concepts, or elements that play a significant role in the process of evolution.
Example: "Genetic mutations are important in evolution as they introduce variability within a population."
Alternatives: "play a crucial role in evolution" or "are vital to the process of evolution."
The extent to which consciousness and choice making are important in evolution remains a matter for debate.
Both are important in evolution". John Endler (1986).
Both are important in evolution". John Endler (1986) "Scientific illustrations are not frills or summaries; they are foci for modes of thought". Stephen Jay Gould (1991).
Gould, following Wimsatt, even goes so far as to argue that the causal agents in selection are the interactors, and that genes and other replicators are "important in evolution, but in a different role as items for bookkeeping.
Complex traits are important in evolution, human medicine, forensics and artificial selection programs [ 1- 4].
Gene duplications are important in evolution (Lynch and Conery 2000), and no genome has more recently duplicated genes than the parasitic flagellate Trichomonas vaginalis, the causative agent of trichomoniasis (Carlton et al. 2007; Cui et al. 2010).
In most cases, one need only look at one of these mutants to be convinced that the mutation is unlikely to be important in evolution.
The indications are that biological degeneracy is important in evolution not simply to add complexity (Edelman and Gally 2001 ) but also to increase evolvability (Lenski et al. 2006 ).
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00960.001 Cooperation between individuals of the same species, and also between different species, is known to be important in evolution.
The opposite direction of information flow, from proteins to the genome, is asymmetrical (not a simple reversion), much more modest quantitatively and intrinsically stochastic but nevertheless appears to be important in evolution.
Analysis of TUD-based phylogeny indicates that host influences are important in bacteriophage evolution, and phylogenies containing both phages and their hosts support their co-evolution.
