Sentence examples for evolutionary usefulness from inspiring English sources

The susceptibility to cancer of most animals, by the rule of contraries, is therefore the evidence of its evolutionary usefulness.

Doolittle's arguments in [ 16, 119], emphasized in the context of the evolutionary usefulness of introns through exon shuffling, but also discussed as applicable to TEs, raised the first possibility, and a parenthetical note in his 2013 paper [ 8] (page 5298) may also be read as consistent with the third.

Their usefulness in evolutionary biology originates in their high evolutionary rates, high taxonomic diversity and morphological disparity, and usually well-known stratigraphic (i.e. temporal) framework (see [ 52- 54]).

"The field is going to expand because of the usefulness of evolutionary theory for all areas of biology," she says.

The combination of these three goals will allow students to experience for themselves the power and usefulness of evolutionary principles.

Wilson's shift in emphasis and perspective toward the first person and the practical does not conceal even the smallest measure of retreat from long-held views about the compatibility of science and religion, the central importance of social life and group affinity in biological evolution, or the usefulness of evolutionary psychology.

To some extent, the same usefulness and evolutionary mechanisms apply to minisatellites.

Studies of Wahde and Hertz (2000) and Spieth et al. (2006) show the usefulness of evolutionary strategies for network reconstruction.

Several analyses of the draft Fugu genome sequence targeting different protein families have been published recently [ 35- 39], which showed its usefulness for evolutionary and functional studies as well as gene discovery.

Importantly, our data provides the first conclusive alignment-based evidence that the two major antigenically variant gene families in P. falciparum (var) and in P. knowlesi (SICAvar) share common evolutionary origin, substantiating the usefulness of the P. knowlesi-rhesus monkey model for the in vivo study of P. falciparum antigenic variation.

Is there a hierarchy in our orderings, in which we judge animals by their usefulness to us or by their place in an evolutionary ladder?