from an evolutionary standpoint

collocation in English

meaningsoffrom,evolutionaryandstandpoint

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from
preposition
uk
/frɒm/us
/frɑːm/
used to show the place where someone or ...
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evolutionary
adjective
uk
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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standpoint
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstænd.pɔɪnt/us
/ˈstænd.pɔɪnt/
a set of beliefs and ideas from which opinions and decisions ...
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(Definition offrom,evolutionaryandstandpointfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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So much attention to color might seem difficult to justify from anevolutionarystandpoint.
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It may, from anevolutionarystandpoint, be more fundamental in determining the adaptation and survival of the individual organism (see below).
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From theevolutionarystandpoint, it is possible to posit the simple null hypothesis that 'silk and the behaviour of ballooning have a common evolutionary origin'.
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So much attention to color might seem difficult to justify from anevolutionarystandpoint.
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From anevolutionarystandpoint, the adaptive value of variable development is considerable in situations where the chances of freeswimming larvae encountering their hosts are low.
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From anevolutionarystandpoint, upright bipedal ambulation, opposable thumbs and divided attention each are high order.
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From anevolutionarystandpoint, it may be adaptive for women, as the principal carers of their families, to be responsive to all familial events and any disruptive health problems.
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From anevolutionarystandpointthen, cancer does not appear to be successful.
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However, from anevolutionarystandpoint, women evolved as caregivers; applying the same fight or flight model, if women fight and lose, then they are leaving an infant behind.
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Newer technologies opened a wave of genetic analysis into organisms once difficult to study from an ecological orevolutionarystandpoint, such as bacteria, fungi and nematodes.
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From anevolutionarystandpoint, dreams might simulate threatening events that may be common in the animal's life and may be passed on in the form of genetic memories.
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Langs sought to explain biologically why these distinct mental modules (and others) function as they do, from anevolutionarystandpoint.
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