Sentence examples for goals of evolution from inspiring English sources

Nehm et al. (2009) point out, 'there is little agreement about whether knowledge and belief change are legitimate goals of evolution education' (p. 1141).

Developing an understanding of this concept is an important goal of evolution education and a part of most high school and college biology curricula.

However, even if generally experiment 2 may be more straightforward and practical, experiment 1 in our experience is much more appealing to the students and less conceptually confusing since it avoids the idea of an end goal of evolution.

While this is a key goal of evolution education (e.g., Maddison et al. 2007; Gregory 2008), by focusing on only creating interactive tree-based imagery we do not take advantage of the full capabilities that digital tools give us to create alternative visual metaphors to depict evolution.

Darwin (1859) removed the basis of beliefs that evolution is a directed process, and that Homo sapiens was the goal of evolution (or creation).

This ranking occurs despite a lack of biological justification for either ranking extant taxa or for assuming humans are the main goal of evolution (Dawkins, 2009).

Such "open programs" [ 40] have the potential to produce both emotionally stable and unstable personalities, but neither was a direct "goal" of evolution.

"There's no real goal at the end of evolution; it's just learning to go with the punches".

Humanity's problem with evolution by natural selection is that it offers nothing for the soul; humans are neither the inevitable goal nor the end product of evolution.

A simulation study using genetic algorithms found that both randomly varying goals and modularly varying goals increased the rate of evolution, with modularly varying goals producing the greatest increases in speed (Kashtan et al. 2007).

A major goal of molecular evolution is to determine how natural selection has shaped the evolution of a gene.