Sentence examples for the conception of evolution from inspiring English sources

For many, the conception of evolution is erroneously limited to a theory of "monkey-to-man" and it is often associated with atheism.

Gene's eye thinking has revolutionised many areas of evolutionary biology in the last thirty years, particularly in the field of animal behaviour; but in many ways it is simply a colourful gloss on the conception of evolution implicit in the formalisms of population genetics.

However, much of contemporary evolutionary genetics departs from the conception of evolution underlying neo-Darwinism, resulting in a widening gap between what formal models allow, and what the prevailing view of the causes of evolution suggests.

First, it "unpacks" the word "evolution" into its constituent processes, dispelling the common conception of evolution as a "black box".

That cause is bias in the introduction of variants, and its lack of concordance with the classical forces theory arises because it is not based on the "shifting gene frequencies" view of the MS, which assumes abundant variation as a pre-condition for "evolution", but on the mutationist conception of evolution as a 2-step proposal-and-acceptance process [ 35].

A recent study exploring students' explanations about evolutionary relations depicted in noncladogenic diagrams, Catley et al. (2010) also found that the students used the teleological (purpose-driven) conception of evolution in which organisms change in order to cope better with a new environment and as a result they turn into a new species.

Two students who achieved a high score on the test on the science conceptions of evolution and the big bang theory participated.

The first step in the intelligent design creationist version of this campaign has been to encourage the public's preexisting association of "Darwinism" with a generic conception of evolution, as opposed to the historical Darwin's insights.

Indeed, the mutational landscape model treats selection as a stochastic sieve, reflecting a conception of evolution more in line with the thinking of de Vries, Bateson and Morgan, than of Darwin, Fisher and Mayr (Orr literally invokes "lucky mutations" [ 22], the concept ridiculed by the architects of the MS, e.g., p. 101 of [ 23]).

The research that does exist raises some doubts about whether science teachers have a scientific conception of evolution and have the ability to deal appropriately with challenges to evolution in the science classroom (Cleaves and Toplis 2007).

Against the conception of humanity in naturalistic theories of evolution, Idealists offered an elevated view of the relation between humanity and natureba.