Sentence examples for the goal of evolution from inspiring English sources

Darwin (1859) removed the basis of beliefs that evolution is a directed process, and that Homo sapiens was the goal of evolution (or creation).

Or savages?" Thomas Edison said: "Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution.

The so-called "strong" anthropic principle is the teleological notion that our (human) existence is, in some mysterious sense, the "goal" of the evolution of the universe; as such, this idea does not belong in the scientific domain.

This ranking occurs despite a lack of biological justification for either ranking extant taxa or for assuming humans are the main goal of evolution (Dawkins, 2009).

"Adaptationism" refers to a family of views about the importance of natural selection in the evolution of organisms, in the construction of evolutionary explanations, and in defining the goal of research on evolution.

The idea is to determine the effective material properties (via volume fraction of an isotropic composite) with the goal of controlling the evolution of the corresponding field quantity.

The recent spread of the avian influenza strain H5N1 and the swine H1N1 strain and the resulting fear that small changes in these viruses could cause a devastating human pandemic have made the goal of understanding influenza evolution timely and important.

We undertook a phylogenetic analysis of CD163 family members and their closest molecular relative, WC1, with the goal of understanding the evolution and function of WC1 and CD163 family members.

Does this suggest that regulatory mechanisms based on evolutionary principles will emerge for the deployment of crop resistance to fungal pathogens, for example, with the goal of slowing rates of evolution of pathogen infectivity?

"There's no real goal at the end of evolution; it's just learning to go with the punches".

With the goal of illuminating the early evolution of the Notch pathway, we have therefore undertaken a comparative genomic study of the components of this pathway across the Eukaryota.