Sentence examples for encouraged the evolution of from inspiring English sources
By killing big fish rather than small ones, the fishermen encouraged the evolution of slow growth.
The islands' prolonged isolation encouraged the evolution of species unknown to the rest of the world; almost nine-tenths of the indigenous plants are peculiar to the country.
FOR decades, the overuse of antibiotics has encouraged the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria which, though they have never broken out and caused an epidemic in the way that was once feared, have nevertheless been responsible for many deaths that might otherwise have been avoided.
Despite the uncertainty, the sudden prevalence of grasses might have encouraged the evolution of hoofed animals well adapted to graze on the new resource.
The existence of strong functionally oriented test and evaluation departments in industry and the corresponding investment in costly test laboratories requiring good centralized management have encouraged the evolution of a mindset emphasizing the test methods regardless of the situation.
Since habitat preservation and modification enhances the survival of endangered species, could it not also encourage the evolution of new species?
Lately, they have accrued evidence that something like group selection encourages the evolution of traits beneficial to a group, even when members of the group are not related.
"The United States has an important role to play in encouraging the evolution of China toward a more politically open and democratic order".
Instead of giving the US greater influence over the internal politics of Egypt, then, deeper involvement with the Egyptian military frustrated the objectives of Obama's 2009 Cairo speech encouraging the evolution of Middle Eastern politics.
The reasons given for this were that cures were not cost-effective and that the poor could not be trusted to take their drugs properly, which would encourage the evolution of drug-resistant strains of the virus.
Unfortunately, such promiscuous use of drugs is the best way to put selection pressure on the worms and encourage the evolution of resistant strains.What is needed, says Dr Kaplan, is more selective drug use, and better management.
