Sentence examples for pattern of evolutionary from inspiring English sources
Phylogeny refers to the pattern of evolutionary relationships between species.
The pattern of evolutionary trends of increased body size that occurs very frequently in the fossil record is known as Cope's rule (Hone and Benton 2005).
A main pattern of evolutionary change noticed by Riedl was that different characters evolve at markedly different rates and that traits associated with body plans evolve particularly slowly (Wagner and Laubichler 2004).
Nothing no part of my trilobites seemed to show any prolonged, slow, steady gradual change the main pattern of evolutionary change that tradition dictated would be the main evolutionary signal I would detect with all this sampling.
In fact, except in rare instances where the pattern of evolutionary branching is created in the laboratory and observed directly as it occurs (e.g., Hillis et al. 1992; Sanson et al. 2002), it is impossible to know with certainty that any given phylogeny is historically accurate.
Yet Gary did have a real point: there is no doubt that the living biota is united by descent from progressively remote common ancestors consequently the pattern of evolutionary relationships among strictly living species can in principle be resolved just on the basis of the anatomical (and now molecular) patterns of similarities and differences among the living species alone.
All of the items focused on macroscopic patterns of evolutionary change.
(Ackermann and Cheverud 2004, p. 17951) Both natural selection and genetic drift collectively explain patterns of evolutionary change.
This has made possible the first direct inferences about patterns of evolutionary diversification in the soft-sediment macrofauna.
All of these instruments contain similar item formats: open-ended questions that ask students to explain how patterns of evolutionary change occurred (from the standpoint of a biologist).
Because of their usefulness in depicting patterns of evolutionary relationships, phylogenies permeate the scientific literature and biology textbooks (Catley and Novick 2008).
