Sentence examples for evolutionary outcomes from inspiring English sources

Dr. Richard E. Lenski, an evolutionary biologist at Michigan State, said, "A lot of studies are finding quite a lot of surprising replicability of evolutionary outcomes".

Of course, it is a long stretch from showing equal success in a laboratory game to showing it in the mating game that determines evolutionary outcomes.

If explanation amounts to identifying causes, then constraints must be causes to explain evolutionary outcomes.

Whether boundaries count as causes, and thereby explain evolutionary outcomes, is more problematic.

So multiplicity of evolutionary outcomes essentially increases the probability of final result – realization of an integrated function providing fitness to environment.

A slightly different set of habitats and hominid groups would have resulted in radically different evolutionary outcomes.

In addition, subtle differences in evolutionary history may lead to different evolutionary outcomes (Beatty and Desjardins 2009).

When certain changes make new evolutionary outcomes more likely they are part of the explanation of those new outcomes.

Adapting to different peaks on an adaptive landscape can lead to some evolutionary outcomes being more likely than others, as in convergent evolution.

Analogous evolutionary outcomes are observed in agricultural weeds that often evolve resistance within ten to 25 years of the application of a newly developed herbicide (Heap 1997).

These writers have argued that a reflection on the nature of information shows that natural processes could not produce complex evolutionary outcomes at all (Dembski 1997).