Sentence examples for older functions from inspiring English sources

There are likely many, many processes implicated in the attainment of linguistic competence, that many of them are likely specialized by natural selection for linguistic tasks, but that many of them also retain their other, and older, functions.

In other words, older functions associated with tRNA will be less prone to co-options than younger functions.

Most paralogs are lost after few million years, but those which either gain a new function ("neo-functionalization") or cover old function ("sub-functionalization") survive.

Mutation and selection can result in functional changes introducing a new function or specialization of old functions [ 38, 39].

She interrupts their old functions and gives them new ones; she reorganizes actual randomness into tightly choreographed versions of randomness.

Mr. Nielsen suggests subtle redesigns and encourages companies to explain how to perform old functions on the new site.

The new concept may involve the introduction of new functions or the realization of old functions in new ways.

But the Education Act 2011 placed the duty in England directly on schools, which were instructed to provide independent, impartial advice to pupils over three years from 13. Connexions was cut back to become solely a phone and online service but there was no new money to replace its old functions, a gap that one witness told the committee cost each school about £25,000.

"This is not Williamsburg, Va., where we're maintaining old functions as a tourist attraction".

For example, establishing and maintaining a system of weights and measures to avoid fraud is one of the oldest functions of governments.

4. Occurrence of Zn in enzymes with the oldest functions.