Sentence examples for evolutionary shifts from inspiring English sources

This Darwinian struggle has its roots in two evolutionary shifts.

These were rapid changes, not gradual evolutionary shifts.

This first study has surprised us by indicating that even conserved meiotic processes are capable of nimble evolutionary shifts when required.

Evolutionary shifts in plant-herbivore interactions provide a model for understanding the link among the evolution of behaviour, ecological specialization and incipient speciation.

The model may also help researchers interpret major evolutionary shifts: As microbes evolved to be more complex, they likely rebudgeted energy to support new cellular machinery.

We propose that evolutionary shifts in Hox gene expression along the body axis provided a transcriptional mechanism allowing eventual decoupling of pectoral motoneurons from the hindbrain much like their target appendage gained independence from the head.

Changes included major shifts in floral composition characterized in Africa by shrinking of forests and emergence of C4 grasses and more open landscapes followed by large-scale evolutionary shifts in faunal communities.

The evolution of sister species is not always combined with parallel evolutionary shifts in pollination syndromes (Cozzolino and Widmer 2005).

The most plausible alternative is that tube length evolves when plants undergo evolutionary shifts between different pollinators.

With the help of giant genomic data sets, scientists can now track these evolutionary shifts in allele frequencies over short timescales.

The resultant branch separation also suggests that there have been negligible structure/function modifications in the F3′H during the major evolutionary shifts from mosses to angiosperms.