Biologists do not consider any one species, such as humans, to be more highly evolved or advanced than another.
As a film journalist, I need to serve many masters -- drama, documentary, comedy, horror, etc. -- and since I tend to favor independent releases, 'cause that's where the truly exciting, innovative stuff is going on, I suppose my narrative standards should be more highly evolved.
In this respect the comb jellies are more highly evolved than even the most complex cnidarians.
Urban liberals would never admit it, says Bageant, but they believe they are more highly evolved than the bloodthirsty rural deer-slaughterers.
In an interview more than 30 years ago, Gehry said: "Our architectural vocabulary is better than our clients'; our visual intellect is more highly evolved; we are the experts and that is why we are hired.
By this measure, China's exports are more highly evolved than those of Brazil or Israel.Particularly stunning is the growth of China's exports of information and communication technology (ICT), a category covering high-tech staples, such as telecoms equipment, computers, electronic components, and audio and video equipment.
It has been suggested previously that absence of an ortholog in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans may indicate that ADAM9 functions in cells or organs that are more highly evolved in vertebrates, and our data support the idea that ADAM9 fulfills a specific role in the vertebrate retina.
Interestingly, the promoter regions of more recently evolved genes tended to be more highly methylated, whereas the gene body regions of evolutionarily conserved genes were more highly methylated than those of more recently evolved genes.
If technological and spiritual evolution ultimately go hand in hand, it could be that more highly evolved beings know to leave us alone until we can at least first be united among our own kind.
But it is also more highly evolved, advancing the state of online invitations by incorporating the craft of paper stationery design — thus letting the 21st century benefit from wisdom gained in the 19th.
The evolutionary trend among fly larvae has been toward structural simplification; thus, generally, larvae of primitive flies are more structured than are larvae of more highly evolved flies, which show greater physiological versatility.
