By the 16th century it had evolved through several forms and had essentially attained its present form.
Mr. Lomax saw folk music and dance as human survival strategies that had evolved through centuries of experimentation and adaptation; each, he argued, was as irreplaceable as a biological species.
The 117-page introduction emphasised how Thai cuisine had evolved through migration, custom and economics – in many ways Thai Food is as much a cultural history as a recipe book.
Once hairlessness had evolved through natural selection, Dr. Pagel and Dr. Bodmer suggest, it then became subject to sexual selection, the development of features in one sex that appeal to the other.
The system had evolved through the Soviet occupation and after, while the Taliban were still trying to subdue Afghanistan.
It was Charles Darwin, building on the work of a few bold predecessors, who first persuaded the thinking world to take seriously the possibility that life had evolved through natural processes.
