Sentence examples for end of evolution from inspiring English sources

The higher end of evolution, intelligence, has been missing from astrobiology, he said, adding, "We're bringing it to the institute now for the first time".

It may seem odd that darting should shrink lifespans and productivity for both participants, but such is life at the pointy end of evolution, where the pursuit of self-interest frequently leads to suboptimal outcomes for all concerned.

For Leconte de Lisle the history of mankind presents a long, slow decline from the golden age of antiquity, leading inevitably toward the cosmic annihilation that post-Darwinian biologists saw as the natural end of evolution.

"There's no real goal at the end of evolution; it's just learning to go with the punches".

The sensitivity to benzaldehyde noted above for Y. cagnagellus may have arisen in this ancestor, allowing it to radiate on Rosaceae The only oligophagous species, Y. padellus, belongs to the derived western Palaearctic clade; its position amidst monophagous species is another proof that diet specialisation is not a dead end of evolution (see [62] and references therein).

To determine whether our Pareto evolution strategy outperformed a random search, we generated two million random datasets and compared the resulting Pareto front to the Pareto fronts generated at the end of evolution in our system.

However, even if generally experiment 2 may be more straightforward and practical, experiment 1 in our experience is much more appealing to the students and less conceptually confusing since it avoids the idea of an end goal of evolution.

"But in animals, hybrids were usually seen as bad, as dead ends of evolution," says Diethard Tautz, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany.

Humanity's problem with evolution by natural selection is that it offers nothing for the soul; humans are neither the inevitable goal nor the end product of evolution.

A, K Students see humans as culminating pinnacle or end point of evolution Cultural and intuitive (hardwired) views of teleology and human superiority Explain importance of chance events in evolution (e.g., mass extinctions).

Both lineages are characterized at the end of their evolution by the development of a very peculiar morphological feature not known in this specific form in any other ammonoids (including forms with similar conch shapes).