biological evolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbiologicalandevolution
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biological
adjective
uk/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
connected with the natural processes of ...
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evolution
noun[U]
uk/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən/
the way in which living things change and develop over millions ...
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(Definition ofbiologicalandevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This difference becomes apparent after a long period ofbiologicalevolution.
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Such timing events are used to assemble cogent hypotheses about ribosome origins and thereby obtain insights into this very early phase inbiologicalevolution.
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Sarmiento understood this fact, but this time he reduced consumption to women and related their activity to thebiologicalevolutionof the species.
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However, then it might be the case that at the population level, consisting of different individuals, a process is operating analogously tobiologicalevolution.
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In the context of extraterrestrial life, even a theory of universalbiologicalevolutiondoes not yet exist, much less a theory of universal cultural evolution.
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Each one of these operators emulates a corresponding process found inbiologicalevolution.
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Links between stellar andbiologicalevolutionwill also be investigated.
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Second, it is possible that individual learning behavior is different frombiologicalevolution.
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There is naught to quibble with here : the preposterous idea thatbiologicalevolutionviolates thermodynamical law is routed.
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It can be a product ofbiologicalevolution.
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It puts more emphasis on seeking how to avoid getting locked into trajectories that we do not like (the blind alleys ofbiologicalevolution).
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In gene-based selection inbiologicalevolutionand the reaction of the immune system to antigens, genes replicate by splitting and filling in the appropriate nucleotides.
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Finally, chapter 9 briefly discusses thebiologicalevolutionof language.
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The author compares the process of language transfer from adults to children withbiologicalevolution.
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This fact is related to the second promise, according to which the level of semantides possesses the largest amount of information regardingbiologicalevolution.
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Combining the two points, they conclude that niche construction both accelerates and stabilizes humanbiologicalevolution, depending on a variety of conditions.
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Current economic behavior and current cultural processes are made possible by past processes ofbiologicalevolutionand still bear the stamp of them.
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And they liken the functions that routines of firms have to those that genes have inbiologicalevolution.
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In traditionalbiologicalevolution, organisms play a central role with respect to environmental interaction.
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