course of evolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcourseandevolution
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course
noun
uk/kɔːs/us/kɔːrs/
a set of classes or a plan of study on a particular subject, usually leading to an exam ...
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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 ofcourseandevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In thecourseofevolution, our visual system became attuned to only a few of the innumerably many kinds of regularity in the world.
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Natural selection is a mechanism governing thecourseofevolution, not the cumulative results of evolution directly.
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Historical variables for rates of evolution, ancestral environments, and branching of lineages are needed to construct thecourseofevolution.
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In thecourseofevolution, life protected itself, wrapped itself up.
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These are sometimes interpreted as "selfish genes" or as redundancy in the genome, where later mutations may produce greater complexity during thecourseofevolution.
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Computational constraints are environmental regularities that have prevailed in the ecological niche of the species over thecourseofevolutionof the perceptual system.
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Toward defining thecourseofevolution: minimum change for a specified tree topology.
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If the genes that organisms have developed in thecourseofevolutionare not optimal, are not doing as well as other genes, then they will not survive.
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Over the longcourseofevolution, the kinds of explicit descriptive representations emphasized by most of cognitive science emerged as specializations within the grounded framework of situated activity.
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As will become clear later, after accounting for the coupled evolution of waves and bars, the site of the sub-critical region changes during thecourseofevolution.
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Therefore, one may ask not only what causes developmental constraints but also how (and why) these constraints might be altered (or circumvented) during thecourseofevolution.
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Contstantino also points out that mild social deficits may have been preserved over thecourseofevolutionbecause they are adaptive.
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Two methods are based on the hypothesis that, over thecourseofevolution, functionally important amino acids in proteins will not be mutated, while unimportant amino acids will vary.
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If so, it will be important to understand whether milder social deficits that have been preserved over thecourseofevolutionmight confer specific advantages to some individuals.
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Williams' paper compels one to reflect on both continuities across species and unique features of pain emerging in thecourseofevolutionthat would distinguish between human and nonhuman species.
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I have always taken the view that collective bargaining, like other industrial processes, is in thecourseofevolution.
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Its development upwards can be only in the ordinarycourseofevolution, but there is a great market with which we need to trade.
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To my mind, the future of industry in this country, and possibly throughout the world, must follow a certaincourseofevolution.
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I think that, in thecourseofevolution, this problem will resolve itself.
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What has been thecourseofevolution?
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