This is a correct and usable sentence in written English.
You can use it to suggest that something is changing more quickly than it did in the past. For example, "The pace of evolution has accelerated in recent years, leading to a wide variety of new species."
Not according to this physicist and anthropologist, who claim that "human evolution has accelerated in the past 10,000 years".
That evolution has accelerated more recently, as she endorsed Barack Obama in the presidential primary race last year, and declared last month that she would seek appointment to the United States Senate.
The health space is always in a state of transformation, but its evolution has accelerated of late, and technology is playing an increasingly vital role in this development.
Evolution has accelerated in 1800 human genes, which encompass about 7% of the human genome, Harpending's team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The parameter δ estimates whether the rate of trait evolution has accelerated or slowed over time as one moves from the root to the tips of the tree.
The evolution of battery development has accelerated in the last decade thanks in large part to innovations in home and personal electronics, especially cellular phones.
The hoopla over " 'Love and Theft' " and "Confessions of a Yakuza" is a symptom of a growing misunderstanding about culture's ownership and evolution, a misunderstanding that has accelerated as humanity's oral tradition migrates to the Internet.
Alternatively, a value where Ka/Ks > 1 indicates that selection has accelerated evolution by acting to change the protein, which is termed "positive selection".
The D. melanogaster canonical Rsp is highly divergent compared to the Rsp-like repeats of the simulans clade species (e.g. 56-63% ID) and monophyletic, suggesting that Rsp has accelerated evolution in D. melanogaster.
Here we evaluate this aspect of the key innovation hypothesis by testing whether the evolution of modified pharyngeal jaws has accelerated lineage diversification within labrid fishes.
However, the fact the branch lengths of both of the D. pulex NOS genes (especially that of Dappu-NOS2) are long relative to other branches within the tree suggests that both of these genes are either experiencing release from selective constraint or are subject to positive selection that has accelerated their evolution.
