Similar to other standard (successful) practices in science, normal stages are often taken for granted, which means their biasing effects are neglected (Wimsatt 1980), some of which are relevant to evolutionary questions (e.g., systematically underestimating the extent of variation in a population).
As such, they are relevant to evolutionary processes in natural populations.
Hallgrímsson et al argued that A/WySnJ mice exhibit altered facial morphology which results from a reduction in the growth of the maxillary process during formation of the face, and that this is relevant to evolutionary changes in facial prognathism in nonhuman primates and in human evolution [ 21].
If zebra finches choose mates on the basis of foraging techniques, this would not only add to our understanding of avian mate choice, but would also be relevant to models of evolutionary divergence.
Because the evolutionary origins and development of the human brain must influence the nature, scope, and limits of the knowledge that human beings can acquire, it is natural to think that evolutionary theory should be relevant to epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge.
Here, we introduce some of the main theories and concepts from evolutionary psychology that may be relevant to the study of organizations.
Hybridization between closely related species is relevant to spatial evolutionary dynamics (Barton and Hewitt 1993; Seehausen 2010) and also to questions of conservation and wildlife management.
There is clearly a great deal of diversity among caribou populations in North America, but existing taxonomy fails to capture the diversity that is relevant to the evolutionary legacy and potential of the species (COSEWIC 2011).
The study of the spatial scale of herbicide resistance is relevant to both basic evolutionary biologists and applied scientists for somewhat disparate reasons: Evolutionary researchers are fascinated by the repeatability of the evolutionary process whereas applied scientists, who want to maintain low levels of resistance in nature, need to understand where control efforts are best implemented.
This distinction is relevant to the comparison of evolutionary rates between orthologs versus evolutionary rates between closest paralogs [ 22].
