Sentence examples for evolutionary equivalent from inspiring English sources

At least five times in the past five hundred million years, the normally meticulous scalpel of natural selection, which excises this moth or spares that finch on account of the tiniest differences in wing color or beak shape, has become the evolutionary equivalent of a machete.

In periods of drought, he suggested, when all the other animals on the savannah were scrounging at eye level, Giraffa sprouted the evolutionary equivalent of an EZ Reacher, which gave it access to a private larder in the succulent crowns of the acacia trees, a privilege it passed on to its offspring.

It must be a wonderful feeling – in evolutionary terms, if having a kid gives you perhaps the biggest spiritual buzz nature affords, then having several thousand kids must be the evolutionary equivalent of smoking crack with no tolerance build-up.

And assuming I convince a conservative friend that climate is an urgent issue we must attend to, if he goes back to a conservative community and expresses this without restraint he is likely to be shunned -- the evolutionary equivalent of death.

Because of their life style, these organisms are highly vulnerable to somatic cell parasitism that can even lead to germ line invasion, "the evolutionary equivalent of death" [4].

The three great lake cichlid assemblages are the evolutionary equivalent of three Galapagos archipelagos of widely different age, each with hundreds of endemic species with the niches and morphologies not only of finches, but of raptors, water fowl, and gulls.

We were specifically interested in knowing how Blast behaves with sequences of evolutionary rates equivalent to the rates of mammalian genes.

In the present work, we simulated protein sequences evolving with and without among-site rate variation in the mutational process, and with evolutionary rates equivalent to those of the mammalian genome.

An equivalent evolutionary (differential) form of the equations is also provided.

The algorithm is significantly less computationally intensive than equivalent evolutionary algorithms, and not limited in scale, complexity or number of dimensions.

Krell and Cranston (2004) have forcefully argued that this use, simply, does not make sense, as both branches originating from a node are of equal age and (in some sense at least) have undergone equivalent evolutionary change.