Sentence examples for evolving in isolation from inspiring English sources
There are accounts of the young Darwin's excitement at finding evidence of species branching from one another and evolving in isolation.
A final twist is that the sites at which it is found seem to have formed an isolated swampy region, probably an island, on which the (somewhat impoverished) fauna had been evolving in isolation for some considerable time, perhaps even a million years or more.
This means populations of frogs can easily wind up evolving in isolation.
Woods suggests a reason for their extinction: "Taxa evolving in isolation on oceanic islands without competition or predators may not be able to adapt to rapidly changing conditions, such as the extensive climatic fluctuations of the Ice Ages or sudden competition or predation from introduced animals".
Recently developed methods can help determine which lineages have been evolving in isolation and, eventually, would correspond to species.
These techniques are based explicitly or implicitly on the estimation of gene flow between lineages, which allows determining whether they have been evolving in isolation or not.
This pattern suggests that populations of both living and extinct lemur species had become geographically isolated by differences in habitat and evolved in isolation due to varying primary production within different ecosystems.
"We think that when the sea level was high it was isolating areas in western North America that caused different species to evolve in isolation and that's why we're finding so many different species," added Dr Irmis.
Its technology evolves in isolation and struggles to succeed elsewhere.
New Zealand The flora and fauna of New Zealand, once part of Gondwana, evolved in isolation for around 80 million years.
