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"evolve by themselves" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when talking about something that changes or develops on its own without outside influence or assistance. For example: - Over time, plants and animals have evolved by themselves in order to adapt to their surroundings. - Complex societies tend to evolve by themselves, as people naturally find ways to organize and govern themselves. - The company's policies have not been updated in years, but they have managed to evolve by themselves to meet the needs of the changing market.
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Similarly, cultural traits such as language, art, or technology, i.e., memes (Dawkins 1976), do not evolve by themselves; they are evolved by humans.
However, viruses, like genes, do not evolve by themselves because they cannot self-replicate; they are evolved by cells because they are replicated by cells (Moreira and López-García 2009).
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These machines aren't evolving by themselves.
How did the creatures evolve to walk by themselves?
A similar analysis [17] has shown that although genes and interactions between them evolve by duplication, the network motifs themselves are not direct products of duplication with inheritance.
If a relatively simple gene modification can improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, it might appear surprising that plants have not just evolved this genetic trait by themselves.
While many viruses have a natural propensity to acquire genetic material or proteins from the host cell upon formation of virions, others have by themselves evolved surface proteins for mimicry, e.g. the chemokine receptors of cytomegalovirus [3].
Individuals who altruistically sacrifice themselves for their relatives, such as the suicidal sting of the honeybee, might therefore evolve by natural selection.
Do individuals evolve to cycle resources 'all by themselves'?
But in evolution, brains evolve by selection.
Planets, the theory goes, evolve by colliding with each other.
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