Importantly, species alive today have adapted to the environmental conditions experienced in their recent evolutionary history.
The third part, the neocortex, controls speech and reasoning and is the most recent evolutionary arrival.
Several of the genes under FOXP2's thumb show signs of having faced recent evolutionary pressure, meaning they were favored by natural selection.
Researchers studying other single genes have found evidence for recent evolutionary change in the genes that mediate conditions like skin color, resistance to malaria and salt retention.
Pollination by insects probably occurred in primitive seed plants, reliance on other means being a relatively recent evolutionary development.
In both flatfishes and stalk-eyed flies, an ancient kind of eye has been transformed in recent evolutionary history.
The hisNB fusion is a relatively recent evolutionary event that occurred in the γ-branch of proteobacteria.
Reality: Giant tortoises are a recent evolutionary innovation and used to be everywhere, not just on islands.
Dogs and humans co-evolved and share recent evolutionary selection processes, such as adaptation to digest starch-rich diets.
The parameter-less population pyramid (P3) is a recent evolutionary computation algorithm proposed for black box optimization.
This coalescence time indicates an extremely narrow bottleneck in the recent evolutionary history of B. taurus.
