Sentence examples for point in evolution from inspiring English sources

So I made the suggestion that at some point in evolution this system turned back and allowed you to create an allocentric view of yourself.

"We've defined the point in evolution when the origin of internal fertilisation in all animals began and that's a really big step," said Long. "In terms of evolution, this is the very earliest act of copulation that we know of".

At some point in evolution, our ancestors switched from walking on all four limbs to just two, and this transition to bipedalism led to what is referred to as the obstetric dilemma.

The global median HGT-index in HMP-genomes was 0.63 and was greater than 0.56 in all body sites, indicating that more than half of the genes in the genomes of human-associated microorganisms were exchanged horizontally at some point in evolution.

Although Eschenmoser is hesitant to speculate that TNA is a precursor to RNA, such a base pairing would be necessary for any RNA ancestor to self-replicate and, at some point in evolution, pass its information to RNA.

As we awaken to this vast perspective, an overwhelming and profound truth becomes clear: At this point in evolution, the process is dependent upon us.

"Our results raise the interesting possibility that there's a genetic toolkit for this kind of behavior," he says a set of genes that have been used at several points in evolution to come up with similar behaviors.

DNA sequencing uncovered whole genome duplications at key transition points in evolution of organisms from bacteria and yeasts to flowering plants and vertebrates.

The classification of families is described as well as important turning points in evolution.

In the first instance the progenitor N3-like and N2-like domains were duplicated, either at different points in evolution or at the same time.

Therefore, it appears that the Trx and Erv domains of plant QSOXs were subjected to distinct selection events at different points in evolution.