Sentence examples for major evolutionary transition from inspiring English sources

Although humans aren't completely monogamous, "the emergence of pair-bonding in humans was a major evolutionary transition, which dramatically altered the evolutionary trajectory of our species," says Sergey Gavrilets, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Margulis (1993) showed how an unusual but crucial event, symbiogenesis (the transformation of bacterial psites into cooperative partners, mitochondria, within one-celled archaea, and the subsequent welding of archaea and their mitochondria into coherent individuals called eukaryotes), caused a major evolutionary transition.

The spread of DNA replication likely represents a major evolutionary transition in early life.

The origin of social life represents a major evolutionary transition which has occurred repeatedly across many lineages [1].

The nucleus represents a major evolutionary transition.

And: "Presently, we are about to witness yet another major evolutionary transition.

Innovations that produce biases may be crucial to explaining major evolutionary transitions, such as the emergence of multicellularity (Sterelny 2008).

Moreover, Maynard Smith and Szathmary ([1997]) argued that major evolutionary transitions such as multicellularity rely on cooperative behaviors between multiple entities.

The earliest major evolutionary transitions involved trade-offs between the need to exist, a metabolic problem, and the need to produce new generations, an informational problem.

The inadequacy of the fossil record fully documenting all major evolutionary transitions continues to provide a basis for creationists to undermine evolution education.

Maynard Smith and Szathmary (1995) proposed that all major evolutionary transitions are associated with the origin of novel means of increasing the efficiency of storing and transmitting information; in other words, of major innovations in the genealogical system.