Sentence examples for based on evolutionary history from inspiring English sources
These hypotheses all focus on the ecological factors that may contribute to invasions; however, the new idea is based on evolutionary history.
In modern taxonomic arrangements based on evolutionary history, the most important point to consider is whether all members of a given taxonomic group can be traced to a single common ancestor.
Science is not able to discover ethical principles in nature, nor to justify them, nor to evaluate them, say, based on evolutionary history, nor even to develop them based on some presumed universal or "objective" principle of "human nature".
Current molecular tools now provide a framework to assess ecological questions based on evolutionary history, potential speciation due to geographical separation and/or hybridization (Meyerson et al. 2010; Lambertini et al. 2012).
In addition, scientifically accurate phylogenetic representations share the following features: relationships are grouped based on evolutionary histories and common ancestry, all organisms are related and are connected within a single representation, taxa are placed at the terminal tips assuming hypothetical ancestors at nodes, and consensus nodes are used when relationships are uncertain.
In previous studies, similarities of evolutionary histories between two molecules were estimated based on evolutionary distances across different species or namely phylogenetic trees.
Based on the evolutionary history of the ND2 gene, our data indicate a complex history of isolation and evolutionary divergence of the ancestral Colorado lineage of cutthroat trout.
Each of these methods assigns a conservation score to each site i, based either on the evolutionary history of that site alone (in the case of GERP, LRT and SCORE) or based on the evolutionary history of site i and its surrounding sites (in the case of PhastCons).
Yet acclimation itself is under evolutionary pressures, and limits of acclimation are often based on the evolutionary history of the species and population (Meester 1996; Stillman and Somero 2000; Calosi et al. 2010).
Ideally, the classification should be meaningful, and not arbitrary it should be based on the evolutionary history of life, such that it predicts properties of newly discovered or poorly known organisms.
