Sentence examples for evolutionary justification from inspiring English sources

This statistical partitioning has an evolutionary justification: sexual selection can change gene frequencies in populations, while sexual isolation might be directly involved in speciation [ 8].

Since a strict molecular clock assumption is frequently violated by empirical data [ 13, 14], and the rooting of test trees may not be obvious in the face of LGT and biased evolution, comparisons between a rooted reference tree and one or more unrooted 'test' trees have the strongest evolutionary justification and are more general than comparisons between two rooted trees.

You can rediscover your inner ape and revert to a "Paleolithic diet" with evolutionary justifications.

There are strong evolutionary justifications for this.

"The fossil record can be interpreted in other ways than evolutionary with equal justification," one reviewer wrote.

However, while parsimony is relatively easy to justify in the original tree-building problem (in which homoplasy represents additional assumptions of evolutionary changes) a justification for its use as a supertree construction method is not quite as obvious.

In the absence of confident similarity scores, assignment of common function to different sequence families requires additional evolutionary and structural justifications.

Evolutionary views of public justification, such as those advanced by Bryan Skyrms (1996) and Gerald Gaus (2011) are late-comers to public reason liberalism.

The reliance on instructional materials to increase preservice teachers' awareness of evolution misconceptions and understanding of evolutionary theory fundamentals provides justification for gathering empirical evidence to assess curriculum effectiveness (NAS 1998, 2008).

The evolutionary approach to public justification can be understood in terms of what James March calls "adaptive" rationality rather than "calculated" rationality, where rationality is achieved when an agent adapts effectively to her environment regardless of how she does so (March 1978).

This hypothesis needs experimental testing and mathematical justification using evolutionary game theory.