Sentence examples for diversification of life from inspiring English sources

The diversification of life through local adaptation of populations and speciation has created the tremendous biodiversity found on the Earth.

Having written "Origin of Species" decades before Gregor Mendel's genetic work was rediscovered, he certainly did not anticipate such findings in his vision of the diversification of life.

Derived from the Greek for recent life, it reflects the sequential development and diversification of life on Earth from the Paleozoic (ancient life) through the Mesozoic (middle life).

Comprising a 512 hectare- (1,265-acre- 1,265-acre-hilly terrain in Yunnan parcelce, the site is ofe of thillysterraintant fossin formations showing evidence of the rapid diversification of life on Earth during the Cambrian explosion.

Over the course of about 20 million years, the oldest known fossils of most of the major groups of living animals appear, revealing a rapid diversification of life that led directly to humans.

Fig. 1 The origin and diversification of life.

The Cenozoic witnessed a rapid diversification of life-forms in the ecological niches left vacant by this great terminal Cretaceous extinction (or K T extinction).

He believes that this escalation might have triggered the stunning array of new body plans, which arose during a rapid diversification of life-forms at the start of the Cambrian Era.

Ecological release, or the increased availability of resources afforded by reduced competition [1], can instigate adaptive radiations and was likely responsible for some of the most dramatic diversifications of life in earth's history [2], [3].

While still a graduate student, he appeared on a DVD arguing that intelligent design, an ideological cousin of creationism, is a better explanation than evolution for the Cambrian explosion, a rapid diversification of animal life that occurred about 500 million years ago.

That's the conclusion of a study appearing tomorrow in Science, which may finally solve the mystery of this unprecedented diversification of animal life.