Sentence examples for the primary evolutionary from inspiring English sources

The hypothesis was a direct challenge to the prevailing neo-Darwinist belief that the primary evolutionary mechanism was random mutation.

Mechanisms evolved in our ancestors that suppressed the ability of individuals to succeed at the expense of members of their own group, causing succeeding as a group to become the primary evolutionary force.

Gould and Lewontin (1979, p. 587) warned of the dangers of such explanatory approaches: "One must not confuse the fact that a structure is used in some way…with the primary evolutionary reason for its existence and conformation".

As Gould and Lewontin (1979) wrote, "One must not confuse the fact that a structure is used in some way…with the primary evolutionary reason for its existence and conformation".

The primary evolutionary trend of primates has been the elaboration of the brain, in particular the neocortex (a part of the cerebral cortex), which is involved with sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought and, in humans, language.

The primary (evolutionary) function of melanin in microorganisms is to reduce the detrimental effects of UV radiation, e.g., DNA damage [14].

Equal M F expression is a by-product of this primary evolutionary phenomenon (Charlesworth 1978 , 1996 Rice 1987; Engelstädter and Haig 2008).

Recently diverged populations are appropriate to study the genetic basis of primary evolutionary changes [ 1].

It is known that the dark steady-state concentration of monomeric Arr varies widely between species, implicating Arr's affinity for itself as a primary evolutionary target for the tuning of the regulation of R* shutdown [ 31].

While advertising, males inflate and deflate the vocal sac which has a primary evolutionary function of recycling air during vocalization, thereby increasing the call rate and distributing sound waves omnidirectionally (Rand and Dudley 1993; Pauly et al. 2006).

The latter was now the form of variation to be given primary evolutionary significance, and presumably this was more likely to be transmitted to the offspring, although details are left unclear.