Though drift operates via random chance, it can still end up causing major evolutionary change.
Over many generations, this process can lead to major evolutionary change.
The Infant Jarvik 2015 is an implantable axial-flow ventricular assist device (VAD) that has undergone the major evolutionary design modifications to improve hemocompatibility.
It is as useful on a short timescale as on a long one; it suggests minor evolutionary modifications as well as major ones.
The resultant branch separation also suggests that there have been negligible structure/function modifications in the F3′H during the major evolutionary shifts from mosses to angiosperms.
Polyploidization is a major evolutionary process in plants where hybridization and chromosome doubling induce enormous genomic stress and can generate genetic and epigenetic modifications.
WGD is a major evolutionary force in angiosperm genomes.
From these humble beginnings flowed an astonishing number of evolutionary modifications (including jaws but that is another story).
The transition from water to land was a major evolutionary step for the green lineage.
The C4-plant functional type is a major evolutionary and ecological success.
