Sentence examples for evolutionary notions from inspiring English sources

The American philosopher William James also included evolutionary notions in his psychology.

In Ohio, the state board of education is considering a science curriculum that would teach "intelligent design," which accepts some evolutionary notions about how species develop, but argues that God or a godlike creator must have been in charge of the grand plan.

This paper instead focuses particularly on common fallacies associated, erroneously, with misbegotten evolutionary notions of progress, along with detailed suggestions for how to correct such misconceptions and, importantly, how to avoid them in the first place.

As a result, Darwin may simply have felt it necessary to make his own statement on the matter, come hell or high water, in a decade that was already significantly more receptive to evolutionary notions than the 1850s had been.

In this evolutionary notion of nature and natural law we have an added support of Peirce's insistence on the inherent fallibilism of scientific inquiry.

Objections to an evolutionary notion of medical malfunction do not show that there is anything wrong with the general idea of basing judgments of health and disease on a scientifically established picture of the normal functional decomposition of human beings.

Scholars have also noted that this evolutionary framework reinforces notions of western superiority and non-western and/or Islamic backwardness [ 15- 18].

We submit, however, that this oddity is primarily a vestige of the traditional belief in the increase of complexity with evolutionary time, a notion that might be intuitive but is not actually borne by any substantial evidence[ 54].

This implies that IS-typing may be best suited for determining deeper evolutionary relationships, a notion that is supported by our comparison with MLST and AFLP.

The following dozen examples provide suggested activities for instructors wishing to confront and dispel numerous myths and misconceptions (Table 1) related to notions of evolutionary progress.

Finally, the book closes with an extended discussion of some twenty-five "species concepts" that are currently at play in the literature, from Mayr's BSC and its descendants, to phylogenetic, evolutionary, ecological, and paleontological notions of species.