Sentence examples for effect of evolution from inspiring English sources

Darwin's theory of extinction — that it was a routine side effect of evolution — contradicted Cuvier's, which held that species died out as a result of catastrophes, or, as he also put it, "revolutions on the surface of the earth".

Other works of this period include The Lotus and the Robot (1960), an examination of Eastern mysticism; The Ghost in the Machine (1967), which discusses the effect of evolution on the structure of the human brain; and The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), a controversial study of the origins of the Jewish people.

By observing a short time-limit, we ensured a negligible effect of evolution of the network structure (less than 2% overall, according to a heuristic calculation based on the growth rate of Facebook during the sampling process - August 2010).

The overall effect of evolution depends on the quantitative details of these responses (Fig. 3A).

The effect of evolution on observed phenotypes and population dynamics depends on the timescale of interest.

The effect of evolution on genes with known roles in cell separation is shown in Table 3.

He will allude to Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin's theory of "spandrels" — side effects of evolution that are not selected for but arise as a consequence of other developments.

The problem has a flavor of statistical mechanics, but possesses the most common feature of most biological problems – the profound effects of evolution.

But so far, no study has adequately addressed the joint effects of evolution, dispersal, and species interactions.

Evolution may thus not be driven by motifs; rather, motifs may be the inevitable result of the self-organizing effects of evolution.

Moore and Cotner (2009) examined the effects of evolution and creationist instruction in high school biology curricula on MATE scores of nonmajor college students.