Sentence examples for element of evolutionary from inspiring English sources

The phrase "the survival of the fittest" is not his but was coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer to summarise the notion of natural selection, the central element of evolutionary theory.

As Dame Gillian Beer has noted, profusion is a necessary element of evolutionary explanations (Beer 2000, p. 13)3 and this maddening and compelling aspect of Darwinian theory is reflected in Voss's own style.

It is important to note that while "pressure" is not a necessary element of evolutionary explanations, when used it should be connected to the core concepts of natural selection in some way.

Lockshin comes then to illustrate another element of evolutionary conservatism: the frequency of conserved genes such as those codifying for caspases, eye development, and homeotic genes the latter responsible for establishing the basic layout of the body all shared in incredible varieties of organisms.

Of note, none of these models include an element of evolutionary age.

2, the proposed model and the elements of evolutionary game theory are presented.

Yet although certain elements of evolutionary biology exercised influence upon medical disciplines such as anatomy, embryology, infectious diseases and immunology, evolutionary biology itself never became part of the curriculum in the same way as, for example, biochemistry.

In addition, elements of evolutionary psychology are also still empirically controversial within the biosocial sciences, with scholarly critiques by some biologists and psychologists asserting that certain basic assumptions and tenets of evolutionary psychology are empirically unsupported (Barrett and Kurzban 2006).

The integrated approach taken by Milner is best appreciated against a background of discipline-oriented accounts of different elements of evolutionary biology and its role in culture and society.

"Select," "adapt," and "fit"—so-called multivalent terms or homonyms are ubiquitous elements of evolutionary language as a consequence of their recruitment from ordinary discourse (Goudge 1967; Ryan 1985; Wandersee 1988).

This paper disscuses and describes a contribution to a new methodicalapproach in the development of design tools, combining generative procedures with methodical elements of Evolutionary Optimisation and Evolutionary Art.