Sentence examples for evolutionary discourse from inspiring English sources

Our study investigates evolutionary discourse practices associated with the notion that "pressures" are evolutionary "forces" that "cause" evolutionary change.

So-called force-talk (Brunnander 2007) has become a common linguistic feature and conceptual component of scientific evolutionary discourse, and we investigate the consequences of using force-talk in evolution education.

The battle lines of this historic conflict continue to shape contemporary evolutionary discourse.

This chapter will focus not so much on "what" we do as consumers, but "why" we do it, leading to a broader evolutionary and behavioral discourse on the meaning and role of objects in our lives, drawing into focus the essential relationship between our enduring need for material experiences, and the impacts this has on the natural world.

In short, a purely evolutionary ethics makes ethical discourse meaningless.

The absence of even minimal intellectual curiosity in the commercial media about what might be the causes of extreme weather occurring planetarily leaves one to wonder about the nature of public discourse and its need for an evolutionary step.

Thus, the creationist tu quoque remains a fallacy, as evolutionary biologists have the right to participate in the discourse over ID.

For a while, it was tough to find intelligent discourse about this, what with the term "evolutionary psychology" being hijacked by fedora-wearing men's rights activists, who used it to justify their "biological imperative" to "spread their seed".

"Select," "adapt," and "fit"—so-called multivalent terms or homonyms are ubiquitous elements of evolutionary language as a consequence of their recruitment from ordinary discourse (Goudge 1967; Ryan 1985; Wandersee 1988).

One aspect of evolution education that has received comparatively less attention is the role that language and discourse practices play in the formulation of mental models of evolutionary causation (Lemke 1990; Pinker 2009).

In this framework, right hemisphere involvement in Acheulean toolmaking suggests the presence of additional cognitive demands for behavioral integration over time and the possibility of evolutionary interactions between (Late) Acheulean (ca. 0.5 mya) toolmaking and discourse-level language processing [34].