I confess to writing speeches for Richard Nixon assuring conservatives that trade with China would lead to the evolution of democratic principles in Beijing.
It's strange what falling out with the Real Madrid manager can lead to; the evolution of Major League Soccer and the career of David Beckham can attest to that.
A particularly powerful type of selection that Darwin emphasized was sexual selection, as when females choose showy mates and male suitors violently combat one another, which can lead to the evolution of things like peacock tails or massive deer antlers.
The hope that the collapse of Communism would lead to the evolution of a liberal, democratic order in the East remains a working proposition in Poland, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere in the region.
Whether or not these influences of population dynamics lead to the evolution of adaptive senescence patterns has long been debated by gerontologists but has not yet been investigated definitively.
The models of interest lead to the evolution of structure involving two or more phases.
I believe that enabling people to see for themselves the grandeur of the universe will ultimately lead to the evolution of spiritual beliefs".
And widespread use of such a therapy could even lead to the evolution of more virulent pathogens that make do without the immune system's help, he argues.
Conversely, an existing gene being expressed in a new place in the body may itself lead to the evolution of a new tissue.
It has long been recognized that various sorts of group selection, in which one group of individuals leaves more descendants than another group, can lead to the evolution of helping behavior.
"It's a little bit related to this idea 'live fast, die young.' " Weissing co-authored an influential paper in 2007 on how tradeoffs in life history, between "living speed" and longevity, can lead to the evolution of animal personalities.
