Sentence examples for earlier functioning from inspiring English sources

Aside from this question, Fitch patiently explains how allegedly perfectly designed complex systems were built up from earlier functioning parts, some of which, such as our appendixes, remain atavistically in organisms (pp. 112 114).

Demographic variables predicted components of involvement, and home visit involvement components were differentially related to outcomes at 36 months, after controlling for demographic/family factors and earlier functioning on the same measure.

On the political plane, the most significant development was the restoration of the Senate to its earlier function of chief policy-making and supervising body.

Among the earlier functions were insulation, color patterns (display or camouflage or species recognition), and even brooding on nests (Padian 2008c).

Since loss of ATRX occurs later in development in our model, we cannot rule out such an earlier function for the protein.

This difference indicates that Rfx6 has a distinct function in adult β cells that is different from its earlier function in the embryonic pancreas.

The consequence of removing this earlier function of Tcf15 could be to delay epiblast formation and consequently to disrupt the kinetics of subsequent lineage allocation.

Cytochrome c, the major player in post-mitochondrial caspase activation, was found to have yet another, earlier function during the mitochondrial stage of apoptosis.

Fifth, the evolution of exclusively new functions for the CTD should be accompanied by the evolution of a new motif, not the same heptad motif already implicated in earlier functions.

His father, a brilliant, intermittently successful inventor, devised one of the earliest functioning submarines; his mother covered the women's-club circuit for the Los Angeles Times.

The present study inferred early functioning of the prefrontal cortex.