evolutionary development
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryanddevelopment
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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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development
noun
uk/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/us/dɪˈvel.əp.mənt/
the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryanddevelopmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He suggests that we have internalized, during ourevolutionarydevelopment, environmental regularities, or constraints.
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In conclusion, we reviewed evidence that supports shepard's hypothesis that during ourevolutionarydevelopment we have internalized environmental regularities and constraints.
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I suggest that it is more likely indicative of theevolutionarydevelopmentof the perceptual ability to detect resources for behavior of hand-held objects.
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This would not be an adaptiveevolutionarydevelopment.
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The association is provocative, and suggests that someevolutionarydevelopmentin cognition may have been partially responsible for this breakthrough.
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It is, however, difficult to reconcile the act of programmingevolutionarydevelopmentfor predatory and destructive behaviour with a perfectly benevolent and just designer.
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Along these lines, theevolutionarydevelopmentof hammering tools may be indicative of attunement to the complex inertial quantities that specify the resources for behavior of a hand-object system.
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But breaking down how things work in practice in species' physiology, neurology, behavior, andevolutionarydevelopment, typically require awareness of, and attention to, system and behavior diversity.
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That is, he asks whether theevolutionarydevelopmentof human cognition can be inferred by a systematic investigation of "the traces of action" as revealed by archeological artifacts.
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Such creatures will never come about at all absent considerableevolutionarydevelopment, and such development will not occur if the ancestors of these creatures are not, in general, very self-concerned.
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In that paper, working memory is conceptualized as a recentevolutionarydevelopmentthat created the possibility of using internal loops for holding and manipulating selectively attended representations.
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Finlay et al. have made an important contribution by showing that there are significant constraints to theevolutionarydevelopmentof distinct brain parts.
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She may believe thatevolutionarydevelopmentis objectively regarded as progressive because it leads increasingly to the emergence of life forms capable of richer and more complex experiences.
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Surely this is man'sevolutionarydevelopment—cave-dweller, village dweller, town dweller, national dweller, regional dweller and, finally, citizen of the world.
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I hope for someevolutionarydevelopmentof that aspect of our economic policy.
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There has been organically anevolutionarydevelopmentof government over those years.
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Our approach has been to adoptevolutionarydevelopment, of which the £1 coin is the most significant to date.
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I believe that to be anevolutionarydevelopmentfrom the flexibility introduced through the interim advisory committee.
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It opens the way to a balanced, carefully thought outevolutionarydevelopmentof our legal profession.
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Genetic drift was embraced as an additional mechanism ofevolutionarydevelopmentin the modern synthesis of the theory.
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