Sentence examples for force for evolution from inspiring English sources

Because food was plentiful and there were few predators in the rain forests, sexual selection was the main driving force for evolution, and the birds of paradise developed brilliant colors and elaborate courtship displays.

According to another hypothesis, the invention of cooking was a major driving force for evolution of the human brain, because it would have released more energy from the food that our ancestors ate, allowing the brain to expand and the gut to shrink.

However, every biologist knows well that sex is the hub of animal behavior and the driving force for evolution.

Although such mutagenesis can be a driving force for evolution to survive a specific environment, cells, under normal conditions, need to avoid frequent alteration of their genome.

With respect to selection, I suggest that sexual selection should be recognized as a more powerful force for evolution than is generally acknowledged and that mind and intention are the key to this evolutionary process.

Molecular diversity among tumor cells has been recognized as a major driving force for evolution of an individual cancer (Greaves & Maley, 2012; Klein, 2013) and takes largely place outside the primary tumour.

These findings suggest that variation in gene copy number is sometimes under selection and that it is one of the driving forces for evolution in these species.

Similarly, bacterial pathogens expressing sialic acids can engage CD33rSiglecs (Carlin et al., 2009; Chang et al., 2014) and might therefore represent strong driving forces for evolution of this class of receptors (Varki, 2011).

As such, sexually antagonistic co-evolution may provide an important driving force for the evolution of hermaphroditic mating systems and possibly even speciation.

Because protein coding genes tend to be highly conserved among mammalian species, changes of transcription regulation and gain/loss of genes rather than protein function evolution may have been the greater driving force for mammalian evolution.

Other orthologs (108, 21.6%) exhibit complex evolutionary patterns which are poorly correlated with plant evolution, suggesting that genetic shift might be a major driven force for their evolution.