Sentence examples for sudden mutation from inspiring English sources

A genius is like a sudden mutation.

The weird randomness of this sudden mutation of person into meme is, in the end, what's so haunting.

"We are not looking at a 'big bang' moment for the euro zone, a sudden mutation that would transform it into a completely different beast," the European Council president, Herman Van Rompuy, who is leading the exercise, said last week.

But his most provocative idea is that human ancestors stopped gesturing and started talking not because their brains underwent a sudden mutation -- a cognitive Big Bang -- but rather because it seemed to some Homo sapiens at the time like a good idea.

A sudden mutation like this could have given primates an instant advantage when it came to finding food--but only if their visual system were able to make sense of the new information.

Writer Frank Swain has been able to hear Wi-Fi signals for the past week, and no, it's not "the result of a sudden mutation or years of transcendental meditation," he says.

That implied "the existence of certain cognitive capacities and that these evolved relatively late in prehistory," the two researchers said, but they were probably not a consequence of a sudden genetic mutation.

Their reward is a real challenge: for example, designing a nanoparticle that can detect a rare event such as a sudden cancerous mutation.

Alternatives to natural selection suggested during "the eclipse of Darwinism" (circa 1880 to 1920) included inheritance of acquired characteristics (neo-Lamarckism), an innate drive for change (orthogenesis), and sudden large mutations (saltationism).

The rediscovery of Mendel's research by Hugo De Vries in 1900 gave saltationists added leverage, since they felt mutations provided the mechanism for sudden evolutionary leaps, and De Vries' mutation theory posited speciation could even occur in a single jump.

Macromutation a key mutation produces sudden evolutionary change skipping over transitional forms (Fig. 7c).