Sentence examples for evolutionary question from inspiring English sources

"It's fundamentally an evolutionary question".

That observation, though, raises a worrying evolutionary question: how could a trait so at odds with reproductive success survive the ruthless imperatives of natural selection?Various answers have been suggested.

The coelacanth genome is therefore more likely to shed light on the central evolutionary question of what genetic alterations were needed to change a lobe-finned fish into the first land-dwelling tetrapod.

The evolutionary question has been discussed extensively by the neurologist Antonio Damasio, who has mapped the transitions between reflex responses to external stimuli in primitive animals through awareness to fully developed self-consciousness, on to the emergence of increasingly complex, large brains.

A perfect gag, I think, although it also raises a pressing evolutionary question: if the wipe-out theory is correct, and if a single meteor did indeed bring the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt close, how, in the name of all that is sacred, did it miss the purple fatso?

However, the important evolutionary question of whether intelligence is a fitness-related trait has not been tested directly, let alone answered.

"I'm only a molecular biologist," he said, implying that deep evolutionary questions were beyond him.

CRISPR now simplifies experimental investigation of evolutionary questions in a variety of species.

Biology was forced to remind itself that many evolutionary questions had been forgotten, and entered an era of intense debate.

Other advances have come from asking new evolutionary questions about why natural selection has left bodies vulnerable to disease.

But genomics can also help to answer more recent evolutionary questions, in particular about how humans emerged and why they are unique.