Sentence examples for evolutionary expansion from inspiring English sources

It's still not clear exactly what all this means, but Tomassy and his colleagues conclude that it may have "served the evolutionary expansion and diversification of the neocortex by enabling the generation of different arrays of communication mechanisms and the emergence of highly complex neuronal behaviors".

The gradual climatic warming that took place during the Early Permian (Cisuralian) Epoch (298.9 million to 272.3 million years ago) encouraged great evolutionary expansion (diversification) among both marine and terrestrial faunas that had survived the relatively cold conditions of the Carboniferous Period.

In eukaryotes, functional diversification follows the evolutionary expansion of a gene family.

The evolutionary expansion of the brain is among the most distinctive morphological features of mammals.

The major mechanisms for evolutionary expansion of the sixteen genes during the rice genome evolution include segmental and tandem duplication.

New analyses suggest that a major evolutionary expansion for ferns came in the wake of the flowering plants and may actually have been precipitated by their showy debut.

Before the evolutionary expansion of the OsOPT gene family in the rice genome, nine OsOPT genes (gene name in black) were distributed on six chromosomes (Figure 3).

We found that both the segmental duplication and the tandem duplication contributed to the evolutionary expansion of the OsOPT gene family in rice.

Phylogenetic analysis of the CK2α gene family, further supported by the gene structure and architecture of conserved protein domains, reveals the evolutionary expansion and diversification of this family.

We performed a meta-analysis of the evolutionary expansion, structural conservation, evolution of function motifs, and transcriptional biases of profilin proteins across kingdoms.

Because schizophrenia affects "social cognition," a hallmark of human evolution, some researchers have hypothesized that the disease is caused by aberrations in genes key to the evolutionary expansion of the human brain.