Sentence examples for major evolutionary events from inspiring English sources

The geologic time scale from 650 million years ago to the present, showing major evolutionary events.

In The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic (eds Gabriela Mángano, M. & Luis A. Buatois) 1 17 (Springer Netherlands, 2016).

Research by paleontologists is especially needed for developing time references for major evolutionary events which will lead to setting an evolutionary clock for Halimeda independent of molecular data.

If confirmed, they would add to the known diversity of early life and provide a new calibration point for the molecular clocks used to date major evolutionary events.

Simpson (1944) saw major evolutionary events as a matter of populations leaving one adaptive peak for another in the landscape rather than the peaks themselves diverging and species becoming modified to keep up with the changing field.

(Lutzoni et al. 2018. Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis. Nature Communications 9 5451). Lutzoni's study brought together 14 researchers with varying expertise to infer the global phylogenies and dates of major evolutionary events for the two kingdoms – plants and fungi.

Results show that a major evolutionary event leading to the clade of the infant-adapted species is linked to carbohydrate metabolism, but it is not the only factor responsible for the adaptation of bifidobacteria to the gut.

However, she says, "this is the first good database to support the notion of nutrient deprivation as the driving force of this major evolutionary event".

For many years, it was thought that an increase in brain size was the first major evolutionary event to have occurred, but a series of spectacular finds in the 1970s quickly rendered that theory obsolete.

Newly exposed parts of Tiktaalik roseae the intermediate fossil between fish and the first animals to walk out of water onto land 375 million years ago are revealing how this major evolutionary event happened.

Gene duplication is a major evolutionary event both for the genome sequence and for the protein−protein interaction (PPI) network growth.