Sentence examples for evolutionary meaning from inspiring English sources

"When Michael and I started to get into this business, people had never thought much about the evolutionary meaning of that gene.

Here we review the key findings made in this area and make a few conjectures about their evolutionary meaning including the likelihood of Martians conquering our planet.

Under such a phylogenetic system, plant groups will be defined by synapomorphies and all groups will be natural and have evolutionary meaning.

Most important, traditional taxonomic categories (such as order, suborder, superfamily, and the like) are fast becoming obsolete, largely because they have no evolutionary meaning.

However, these interpretations are lacking scientific content to justify the evolutionary meaning behind the relationships represented and sometimes led to confusion about how to accurately interpret changes to a tree.

But though Simpson's original formulation of quantum evolution has for the most part been lost sight of (in no small measure because he himself later watered it down), nonetheless, his insistence that patterns in the fossil record hold evolutionary meaning lives on.

Thus, in this paper, we provide a possible insight on the combinatorial complexity of the transcriptional regulation and its evolutionary meanings of the most complex and adaptive processes such as development and cell communication.

(I use the word "convergence" here not in its evolutionary jargon meaning but in its dictionary meaning of "moving toward union or uniformity" [ 58] or, in the verb form "converge", "gradually change so as to become similar or develop something in common", or "come together from different directions so as eventually to meet" [ 59]).

Several of the genes under FOXP2's thumb show signs of having faced recent evolutionary pressure, meaning they were favored by natural selection.

This woman had been chosen by the researchers, Tracy Vaillancourt and Aanchal Sharma, because she "embodied qualities considered attractive from an evolutionary perspective," meaning a "low waist-to-hip ratio, clear skin, large breasts".

"Physalis sits near the tips of the nightshade family's evolutionary tree, meaning that the nightshades as a whole, contrary to what was thought, are far older than 52 million years," said Peter Wilf, a Pennsylvania State University geoscientist and study author, in a news release.