Equally, concerted evolutionary changes can sweep through genomes, deactivating transposable elements [ 31].
If unicolonial insects were successful in the grand sweep of evolutionary time, Dr. Case said, they would probably appear more often.
The tree of life illustrates the grand sweep of evolutionary history over time: speciation, extinction, and the relatedness of every living thing.
Our conception of ourselves will embrace not only our personal genetic quirks, but the broad sweep of our evolutionary past.
The grand sweep of this evolutionary story has been used time and again to dispute the physicist Steven Weinberg's famous conclusion to his account of the very beginnings of the universe in The First Three Minutes: "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless".
Moreover, under the gene-specific sweep model, the evolutionary history of a population cannot be described by a single line of succession of common ancestors, in contrast to the implications of the ecotype model [ 16].
These regions could possibly represent signatures of selective sweeps in the evolutionary history of the amakihi, or be the result of inbreeding, although the latter may be less likely given the relatively high variation found in amakihi from the same locality as 1771-10606, the individual whose genome is presented here.
The sociology of interdisciplinary activity provides useful tools for understanding the Committee's value in the broad sweep of change in evolutionary studies during the synthesis period.
Linkage disequilibrium (LD) can be influenced by a number of evolutionary factors including selection by selective sweeps in which the alleles at flanking a locus under selection are rapidly swept to high frequency or fixation due to genetic hitchhiking [ 32].
Finally, 'recurrent hitchhiking' occurs when selective sweeps happen repeatedly over evolutionary time.
