Sentence examples for rapid evolutionary change from inspiring English sources

Rapid Evolutionary Change.

But the rapid evolutionary change is striking.

To encourage rapid evolutionary change, the populations were manipulated such that the flies experienced intense competition for food and space.

The difference in the colour morphs is genetically controlled and of interest as a striking example of rapid evolutionary change in a localized area.

Intermittently, new species arise and there is rapid evolutionary change on a geological time scale (still interminably slow on human time scales) resulting in the sudden appearance of new forms in the fossil record.

Or perhaps some habilis members left Africa earlier and, after an isolation that favors rapid evolutionary change, returned to Africa as erectus, living side by side with the habilis population that had remained behind.

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.

The other invokes rapid evolutionary change as species enter new niches.

The isolated population undergoes rapid evolutionary change resulting in peripatric speciation.

These findings suggest that certain loci may be more likely than others to facilitate rapid evolutionary change.

Fig. 5 The evolution of Phacops seen as long periods of evolutionary stability ("stasis")—"punctuated" by episodes of rapid evolutionary change during speciation events (Steve Thurston, AMNH).