A detailed agent-based model has been built to replicate the past evolution, accounting for structural diversity of farmers, heterogeneity in behaviour, and natural resource constraints.
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth.
In contrast to demographic information, openness to experience significantly predicted Knowledge/Relevance, Creationist Reasoning, and Exposure to Evolution, accounting for as much as 10% of the variance on its own.
Since the complexity of vertebrate eyes is a common antievolution argument, let us look at what Darwin called an "organ of extreme perfection" and see how evolution accounts for it.
According to Kennedy et al. (2004, p. 3): "biological evolution accounts for three of the most fundamental features of the world around us: the similarities among living things, the diversity of life, and many features of the physical world we inhabit".
Convergent evolution accounts for the streamlined appearance of such diverse animal lineages as dolphins (mammals) and barracudas (fish).
Using species with well-established phylogenies and robust divergence time estimates, we compare the rates of evolution accounting for the effect of generation time.
These authors' genetic experiments on zebrafish showed that it was probably a loss of only a small number of genes that acted as a creative force in evolution, accounting for the huge evolutionary transition from fins to limbs.
The distinct proportion of mature products from the MIR159/319 genes in different clades suggests that the post-transcriptional control of MIR159/319 gene output may have diverged during evolution accounting for the variability of mature miRNA expression profiles of this family.
These studies, together with our evidence of higher population differentiation in the genes involved in the hair follicle development support a hypothesis of adaptive evolution accounting for the diversification of human hair.
