Sentence examples for contingent processes from inspiring English sources

Theirs may be a complicated history involving not only direct adaptive evolution but also shifts to or additions of new functions and the juxtaposition of components that, themselves, may have been built up by these same historically contingent processes.

This is especially true in the study of historically contingent processes such as evolution, which spans nearly four billion years and encompasses the rise and disappearance of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of species and the struggles of an unimaginably large number of individual organisms.

Results will suggest factors that are common to all three index conditions and all healthcare systems that included papers reporting factors that are common to long-term conditions (core processes and mechanisms), and factors that are specific to an index condition or a specific healthcare system (contingent processes and mechanisms).

I conclude by outlining principles for theoretically and computationally approaching use as an embodied and temporally contingent process – as a form of 'making'making

J. B. S Haldane and John Bernal [27] where among the first authors to see that science can become one of the causal powers that purposefully directs the otherwise slow and contingent process of Darwinian evolution.4 What underlies the notion of the cyborg is the idea that science can provide some kind of "clean slate" or cleared space for a radical change of humans and their future [28].

The result is that the disruptive and contingent process of state-building and formalisation they engage in and promote often works against the very people they claim to represent.

Accumulation of a rich cassette metagenome will likely prove to be a complex and historically contingent process, and further metagenomic investigation of our samples may provide insights into this history as well as the role of LGT processes in bioremediation.

We conclude that the building of trust is a necessary but always vulnerable and contingent process.

Indeed, because evolution is a highly contingent process, it is difficult to predict the fate of each single lineage.

(Interview 20) Although this participant describes her experience of ultrasound using an interpretative repertoire of medical objectification, her account also locates medical objectification as a socially contingent process.

Our synthesising argument runs as follows: candidacy is a dynamic and contingent process, constantly being defined and redefined through interactions between individuals and professionals, including how "cases" are constructed.