Sentence examples for measures of evolutionary from inspiring English sources

The study, published in The Proceedings of the Royal Society, showed that similarities in body structure and function, long used to group species of aquatic birds together, were not always good measures of evolutionary closeness.

The multi-species genetic landscape approach may provide an avenue to readily incorporate measures of evolutionary process into GIS-based systematic conservation assessment and land-use planning.

Since pathogenic variants are likely to depress fitness, measures of evolutionary selection are used to infer whether a site or an allele has a deleterious effect on health (although it should not be assumed that the identified disease association is itself the cause of reduced fitness).

Educators must begin to embrace new tools and technologies and use them to develop more meaningful measures of evolutionary thinking and reasoning (National Research Council [2012]).

Understanding of the nature of science was the single most important factor associated with acceptance of evolution in our study and explained at least four times more variation than measures of evolutionary knowledge.

There is a negative correlation between fRNA coverage and all five measures of evolutionary rates.

One important part to reconstructing the relationships among genes in different organisms is an accurate method to find orthologs as well as an accurate measure of evolutionary diversification.

[P]redictive fitness is a measure of evolutionary change not a cause".

These patterns suggest that explanatory coherence is a useful measure of evolutionary expertise.

The only proper measure of evolutionary distance between species is the time since the MRCA.

Compared to acceptance of evolution, our measure of evolutionary familiarity showed fewer significant differences with regard to our predictors.