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A related issue arises with the use of the terms "regression" or "regressive evolution".
Viruses could be just products of regressive evolution due to their extreme parasitic nature.
Darwin himself struggled with regressive evolution, and in particular, the loss of eyes in cave fish puzzled him.
Regressive evolution does not often make its way into biology textbooks, but it is of great relevance nonetheless.
Regressive evolution is commonplace, and it is well worth asking why evolution has repeatedly produced eyeless species in so many different groups of organisms.
By the flip side of the coin, of course, we are referring to regressive evolution: the loss or degeneration of a trait.
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The growing interest in Astyanax cavefish, as a model for understanding regressive phenotypic evolution, underscores the importance of a higher resolution phylogeny for interpreting experimental studies.
We detect evidence of increasing human disturbance (regressive soil evolution) for about the last 1 ka.
Science fiction has often held a mirror to our society in order to teach us about our evolution (or regressive behavior).
The mechanism governing the evolution of regressive features remains unknown.
However, the precise mechanism(s) driving the evolution of regressive traits remains unknown.
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