Sentence examples for evolution of useful from inspiring English sources

As the engineering historian Henry Petroski suggested in his 1992 book The Evolution of Useful Things, continual refinement is the usual rule in technology.

By John Updike The New Yorker, October 4, 1999 P. 106 BOOKS lead about "The Book on the Bookshelf" (Knopf; $26) by Henry Petroski... Mentions his earlier "The Pencil" and "The Evolution of Useful Things"... His newest excursion into the commonplace, "The Book on the Bookshelf" (Knopf; $26), arrives at rather thin and overworked terrain.

Over the last year, to give you an idea of the riches for the taking, I've spent a penny each on Roth's The Anatomy Lesson and Deception, Renata Adler's Pitch Dark in hardcover, a first-edition copy of Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker, and one of Henry Petroski's The Evolution of Useful Things – among others.

Petroski, a professor of both engineering and history at Duke and the author of such books as "The Pencil" and "The Evolution of Useful Things," brings an eye for the little things: what kinds of guardrails are best, how roads can be made safer through better signage, which paving materials last longest.

BOOKS lead about "The Book on the Bookshelf" (Knopf; $26) by Henry Petroski... Mentions his earlier "The Pencil" and "The Evolution of Useful Things"... His newest excursion into the commonplace, "The Book on the Bookshelf" (Knopf; $26), arrives at rather thin and overworked terrain.

He is author of the books The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance and The Evolution of Useful Things.

This is not only of biogeographic interest, but will also open fruitful avenues of inquiry regarding evolution of functional genes useful for crop improvement.

Thus, to date, molecular systematics using plastid or nuclear markers have failed to unambiguously identify the sister genus of the coconut, determination of which is not only of biogeographic interest, but will also open fruitful avenues of inquiry regarding evolution of functional genes useful for crop improvement.

To study the evolution of plastids, some useful platforms are available for comparative genomic analyses, such as ChloroplastDB (13), but resources for the comparative genomics of plastids and cyanobacteria are still limited.

This question isn't central to whether or not evolution is true, but it may have a key role to play in the question of whether knowledge of evolution is useful.

Since ABC does not use an operator like crossover as in GA or differential evolution (DE), the spread of useful information amongst solutions is not very effective [16].