evolutionary change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandchange
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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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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She may believe that it fosters positiveevolutionarychange.
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The model is very simple and, to some extent, allows one to equate the influence of structure inevolutionarychange.
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The key issue for the present argument is that this was a time ofevolutionarychangein anatomy, as well as technology and cognition.
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It seems unlikely that there was no significantevolutionarychangein the floral assemblage during the 24 million years separating the two supposed dates.
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As they note, at a different time scale the successive stages of constructivist development are analogous toevolutionarychange.
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In our analysis, we emphasize the mechanisms that produceevolutionarychange, not just correlations.
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So it is with the emergence of a new species inevolutionarychange, with changes in the political and social domain, and in grammar change.
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This should enhance understanding of the link between phenotypic and molecularevolutionarychange.
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They were liberals, not visionaries, favouringevolutionarychangeand strongly opposed to any violent revolutionary methods.
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This second amendment invites consideration of the possibility that hominid infants played an active role inevolutionarychange.
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Mutations must first influence development to influenceevolutionarychange.
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Of course, this presupposes that medical care has been a feature of our environment for long enough to enable suchevolutionarychangeto take place.
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This simple system can use energy and nutrients available from its environment, undergoevolutionarychangeover time, and ultimately die.
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In this paper, we focus on the first aspect as well, that is, on the detection ofevolutionarychange.
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The concept of heterogeneity (orevolutionarychange) developed in this paper encompasses both of the preceding time-series definitions.
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By superimposing phenotypic features over accepted phylogenies, one can adopt parsimonious interpretations ofevolutionarychange.
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Formally, statistical definitions ofevolutionarychangewill center around the existence of time-irreversible structure associated with one of three potential generating mechanisms.
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