Sentence examples for evolutionary achievements from inspiring English sources

The ability of protein molecules to fold into their highly structured functional states is one of the most remarkable evolutionary achievements of biology.

Dissipation, saturation and direction may provide useful concepts to explore the evolutionary achievements of the biological pathways.

This property can be formulated as "evolutionary memory" – how well do organisms remember past evolutionary achievements when they undergo a mutation.

Thus, an evoecotoxicologic interpretation places the development of aerobic metabolism-dependent evolutionary achievements, including aerobic multicellular organisms, at least 1.2 billion years in advance of their appearance in the available fossil records.

Human consciousness, that wonderful ability to reflect, ponder and choose, is our greatest evolutionary achievement.

There is little debate, however, that our crowning evolutionary achievement is the human brain.

The polymerase's ability to replicate DNA of varying sequence with high fidelity represents an evolutionary achievement that perpetuates life and evolution.

At some point even the staunchest critics of the view that the presence of anaerobic energy metabolism in eukaryotes is ancestral will have to admit that anaerobiosis is not an evolutionary achievement of eukaryotes: it is an ecological specialization.

But the notion that the ability to survive in low oxygen conditions represents a novel and recent evolutionary achievement of eukaryotes, rather than an ancient trait, remains popular with some specialists, and lateral gene transfer from one eukaryote lineage to another is suggested as the mechanism underlying its apparently sparse distribution among modern lineages [ 165].

During the week of his birthday, universities, museums, and science-oriented organizations worldwide host events that celebrate Darwin's scientific achievements in evolutionary biology.

Our worry is that the transfiguration of symbiogenesis into a philosophical position hardly brings a surplus of scientific knowledge, while it runs the risk of overlooking some crucial achievements of evolutionary biology, like the reformulation of teleological claims, and the distinction between ecological and genealogical domains, as we explain hereafter.