Sentence examples for evolutionary timescale from inspiring English sources

"Something happening in 20 years is a split second on an evolutionary timescale".

Interestingly, cooperation collapses on an evolutionary timescale and ∆tasA gradually outcompetes its partner ∆eps.

It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the House of Lords evolves on a truly evolutionary timescale.

For instance, reversible evolution has been observed on a relatively short evolutionary timescale in the peppered moth (Biston betularia).

And indeed, it appears that chemically defended amphibians that later develop conspicuous colours may enjoy some benefits on an evolutionary timescale.

Foster, C. S. P. et al. Evaluating the impact of genomic data and priors on Bayesian estimates of the angiosperm evolutionary timescale.

Money and financial markets have only been around for a few thousand years which, on an evolutionary timescale, is a blink of an eye.

On an evolutionary timescale, organisms producing these biomaterials can have certain survival advantages against hostile growth conditions and predation (Kunkel et al., 2012).

Nevertheless, chloroplast RNA splicing may contribute to the fitness of the alga in more challenging environmental conditions or on an evolutionary timescale.

Previously, scientists believed that the species diverged more than a million years ago; VonHoldt and her colleagues found they diverged just 50,000 years ago — a blip on the evolutionary timescale.

Over the evolutionary timescale, organisms with the ability to renew somatic tissue needed to evolve tumor suppressor mechanisms to regulate and control cellular proliferation in order to avoid unregulated cell growth leading to cancer.