Remaining relatively constant themselves, these parts can develop new dependent elements in evolution and become more entrenched and foundational to the system as a whole.
Although conventional evolutionists have tended to ignore the importance of mobile genetic elements in evolution -- calling them "junk DNA" (Orgel 1980) -- and treat the well-documented cases of mobile genetic element exaptation as minor and accidental exceptions, the weight of evidence revealed by this article cannot be dismissed so easily.
He noted that jaw changes were a crucial element in the evolution of lizards, rabbits and mice, among others, making them prime candidates for evolution via BMP4.
The blue receptor is the quintessential element in the evolution of color vision, a wonderful new way to see things.
The Happy Days Festival – now in its fourth year – is a key element in the evolution of Enniskillen and the surrounding area as a focus for literature.
But scientists at the University of Pittsburgh say that the ability of women to retain large fat reserves on legs and buttocks was a vital element in the evolution of intelligence.
To the late Isaac Deutscher, the author of biographies of Trotsky and Stalin who, like Carr, broadly accepts Trotsky's version of Stalin as a somewhat mediocre personage Stalin represents a lamentably deviant element in the evolution of Marxism.
It is an "essential element in the evolution" of The Silmarillion, said the publisher, and the forthcoming book is the author's son Christopher Tolkien's attempt "to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded".
Until now, the small size and dim light of brown dwarfs prevented accurate measurements of their masses--the critical element in stellar evolution and destinies.
And he pointed to the conflict between individuals and the families they have grown up in, that began with nineteenth century romanticism, where individuality, self-definition and self-invention would become a dominant element in cultural evolution.
