Sentence examples for more rapid evolutionary from inspiring English sources

Dr Jablonski's study does not, for instance, help to answer whether the tropics are a wellspring of species because a hotter climate brings a higher mutation rate, or because more intense interactions between species select for more rapid evolutionary change.

This trait is shared with other members of the Sclerodermatineae, which as a group have undergone more rapid evolutionary change than the order as a whole.

Thus, the differences in gene number between genera do not merely reflect greater divergence times, but instead suggest periods of more rapid evolutionary change and subsequent stasis.

Thus, the second mini-clade underwent a more rapid evolutionary divergence process compared to the first one.

Positive epistasis may allow hybrid populations to access higher-fitness peaks elsewhere on the fitness landscape, thereby facilitating greater and more rapid evolutionary responses to novel environments.

Clarke et al. [ 74] used sequence data and d N / d S ratios to identify mouse-chimp-human orthologs that exhibit more rapid evolutionary change than expected based upon neutral substitution models (i.e., positive selection).

The greater the catalyst, the more rapid the evolutionary process (rapid change in order Cetacea within 20 my with little change in the last 35 my).

Importantly, the greater dispersal distances that evolve when climate change is more rapid, induce evolutionary rescue by facilitating the population in crossing large gaps in the landscape.

Assuming that ecological dynamics (i.e., changes in species density) are much more rapid than evolutionary changes (i.e., genetic changes affecting the coefficients of inter-species fitness dependencies) [ 91], most evolution occurs whilst ecological dynamics are at or near equilibrium, as modelled here.

Contrary to expectations, functional analysis of the relative gene divergence estimates did not indicate more rapid rates of evolutionary change for genes involved in biological processes expected to be important in eye-stalk development and evolution.

Determining the genetic bases for more recent and rapid evolutionary changes within and between species remains an area of active research across many phyla (Atwell et al. 2010; Peichel 2005; Prud'homme et al. 2007; Seidel et al. 2008), for which unfinished genome sequences have proven inadequate.