Sentence examples for drivers of the evolution from inspiring English sources

Why doyou argue that cooking was the mainfactor? A. All that you mention were drivers of the evolution of our species.

Dr. Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, said that as dramatic as the changes in form caused by mutations in toolkit genes can be, it was premature to credit these genes with being the primary drivers of the evolution of novel forms and diversity.

In the paper "Climate, critters and cetaceans: cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales," which was published in the Feb. 19, 2010 issue of Science (http://www.sciencemag.org), Uhen and co-author Felix G. Mark show that the more kinds of diatoms living in a given time period, the more kinds of whales there are in that same period.

In mammals, splice variants are considered to be primary drivers of the evolution of phenotypic complexity [ 48– 50].

In fact, gene duplication followed by functional divergence have been shown to be important drivers of the evolution of GH families [ 74].

It is interesting therefore that limits on the provisioning rate, rather than predation risk, usually are considered the primary drivers of the evolution of the unusually brief nestling periods in alcids [ 26, 46, 47], but see Cody [ 48].

In recent times, multiple antenna systems have been one of the main technological drivers for the evolution of wireless communications.

Indeed, our working hypothesis is that the advantage of cooperative defense against competitors is a major driver of the evolution of social colonies among these reef shrimp.

Our results demonstrate that predation can be important indirect driver of the evolution of both pathogen virulence and host immunity in communities with multiple species interactions.

Foraging competition is the most likely driver of the evolution of behavioral monogamy in large treeshrews [44], and would also be expected to exert evolutionary pressure on dispersal patterns.

Alternative splicing (AS), which invalidates the old theory of "one gene one protein", enables higher eukaryote to produce large number of transcripts with limited number of genes, and has been proposed as a primary driver of the evolution of phenotypic complexity in mammals [1].