Sentence examples for feature of evolution from inspiring English sources

The way the Prisoner's Dilemma pits cooperation against defection distills an important feature of evolution.

It concerns a central feature of evolution, one with considerable bearing on human social behaviors.

Convergence is a common feature of evolution and has major effects on the organization of biological communities.

The struggle between parasites and their hosts is a constant feature of evolution and widespread use of these particular bacterial poisons produces a correspondingly strong selection pressure for resistance in parasites.

Although the creation of hybrids is a natural feature of evolution, scientists believe the speed and extent of hybridisation in the Arctic due to the rapid loss of sea ice could have major implications, especially for specialised animals such as the polar bear which has to rely on highly evolved behaviour.

(ii) Self-organization: Process metaphysics has traditionally been motivated by the fact that it seems to give the best explanation of the phenomena of emergence, originally understood as an integral feature of evolution.

Simpson took a major part in such studies; his principal publications in the area were his volumes Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944; reissued 1984) and Major Features of Evolution (1953).

Yet scientists have managed to distill some of the most important features of evolution into the language of mathematics.

Toy models are gross simplifications that nevertheless attempt to retain major essential features of evolution, bridging the gap between empirical reality and formal theoretical understanding.

A forthcoming list will include so-called type specimens that have been named and categorized, rare vertebrates, fossils that illustrate key features of evolution, and those from large sites.

Nine years later, in his The Major Features of Evolution, Simpson retreats from his earlier version of quantum evolution now calling it "a special, more or less extreme and limiting case of phyletic evolution" (Simpson 1953, p. 389).