Sentence examples for evolutionary alternative from inspiring English sources

In his book "The New Executive Brain," Goldberg speculates that a gradiential principle constitutes an evolutionary alternative to a modular one, permitting a degree of flexibility and plasticity that would be impossible for a brain that is organized in a purely modular fashion.

She said the Philadelphia events were also intended to encourage people to consider the evolutionary alternative to the biblical account of the origins of man, as represented by the new Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., a $35 million institution that has attracted more than 400,000 visitors since it opened in May 2007.

There is a long-running debate about whether this Cambrian explosion was truly a very rapid period of evolutionary experimentation; alternative views are that modern-looking animals began evolving earlier but fossils of their precursors have not yet been found, or that the "weird wonders" are evolutionary "aunts" and "cousins" of modern groups.

Two contradicting properties have been associated to evolutionary conserved alternative exons: higher sequence conservation and higher rate of non-synonymous substitutions, relative to constitutive exons.

Our results demonstrate considerable evolutionary diversity of alternative splicing, in particular frequent lineage-specific loss of alternative variants.

They suggest that RNA could itself provide an alternative evolutionary substrate.

In the meantime, Darwinism in the latter part of the 19th century faced an alternative evolutionary theory known as neo-Lamarckism.

An alternative evolutionary approach is the use of virtualized network components.

Tomasello's theory of language acquisition, discussed above (§2.2.1.b), invites this alternative evolutionary perspective.

From that initiating platform, a cohesive alternative evolutionary narrative distinct from standard Neodarwinism can be presented.

For this analysis we grouped student generated representations into four categories: phylogenetic diagrams, ecological diagrams, diagrams representing alternative evolutionary principles, or no representation.