Sentence examples for direction to evolution from inspiring English sources

But this sloppy diction gives the uninitiated the impression that there is a direction to evolution that is manifestly teleological.

Most of the other known mechanisms of evolutionary change such as genetic drift, neutral mutation, gene duplications, transposons, horizontal gene transfer by plasmids, and others have no direction or goal at all and are in fact random (which natural selection is not) and therefore could not possibly give a particular direction to evolution.

But just as the comparative biologists of the late 19th Century could study anatomy and physiology based on a simple Darwinian foundation, so did many mid-20th Century developmental and cell biologists implicitly build their research on assumptions underwritten by the Modern Synthesis: hard inheritance, no orthogenetic "direction" to evolution, adaptation by natural selection, and so on.

It is teleological; that is, it implies there is a direction or purpose to evolution (to make the trait adaptive), when in fact it is impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy the future of a biological character based on its current state.

Allometry, the association between size and shape, has long been considered an evolutionary constraint because of its ability to channel variation in particular directions in response to evolution of size.

This direction of least resistance to evolution might be characteristics of the Mus genus, where some species display extreme morphologies of elongated UM1, especially in the subgenus Nannomys [52].

This result is in striking contrast to the MP results which suggested repeated evolution in the opposite direction, to AD from gonochorism.

It aims to define industrial ready product through two necessary passages: the preliminary design of an optimized ideal system, which is used a term of comparison to define the possible direction of evolution to optimize the product, and the subsequent optimization of the components considering them as inserted into the relative flux.

To put direction into evolution is to be a supporter of the non-scientific theory of Intelligent Design.

We will go from evolution by natural selection to evolution by intelligent direction.

Some authorities have proposed a hypothesis of evolution in the Cyperaceae that is essentially the reverse direction of evolution to that presented above that is, that unisexual flowers were the primitive condition.