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单词 evolutionary explanation
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evolutionary explanation

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meaningsofevolutionaryandexplanation

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evolutionary
adjective
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/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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explanation
noun[C or U]
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/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofevolutionary explanation

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Taken together, these two mechanisms give us a satisfyingevolutionaryexplanationfor why we age.
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According to theevolutionaryexplanation, (5) our universe is actualized by a process of super-cosmic evolution.
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In fact, we have anevolutionaryexplanationfor why the mindbrain relation seems so mysterious.
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Thus, there is a certain amount of circularity to theevolutionaryexplanation.
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We think thisevolutionaryexplanationhas at least two advantages over all competing explanations.
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Only when this is apparent is one forced to consider anevolutionaryexplanation.
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Anevolutionaryexplanationis that this preference is genetic and evolved because it gave the children of women with such genes more resources - supposedly a good thing.
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Nevertheless, numerous people have thought it to be a valid criticism of sociobiology that human behavior is just too flexible to admit of directevolutionaryexplanation, except in rare cases.
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Williams seeks anevolutionaryexplanationfor facial pain expression because she believes that an evolutionary approach will overcome the dominant operant approach.
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Campbell's (1999) target article about gender differences in aggression and status-seeking behavior describes a convincing body of evidence and presents a plausibleevolutionaryexplanation.
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Rolston states theevolutionaryexplanationof religion and scrutinizes it critically.
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Williams offers anevolutionaryexplanationof this phenomenon: "the presence of potential caregivers prompts the release of suppression of pain facial expression" (target article, sect. 7).
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The central hypothesis of antagonistic pleiotropy remains the prevailingevolutionaryexplanationof senescence.
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Anotherevolutionaryexplanationsuggests that fertility in a mate is of greater importance to men than to women.
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Although not a justification by any means, this could be anevolutionaryexplanationfor why some people feel racism.
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An alternativeevolutionaryexplanationfor political diversity is that it is a polymorphism, like those of gender and blood type, resulting from frequency-dependent selection.
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Anotherevolutionaryexplanationis the imprinted brain theory which argues that psychosis and autism are contrasting disorders on a number of different variables.
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These patterns have anevolutionaryexplanation: they have functions which increase the chances that the offspring of the patterned animal will survive to reproduce.
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Given this, it is best to conceptualize function as anevolutionaryexplanation, but to understand that presently function traits might not all have been produced by natural selection.
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All these adaptations requireevolutionaryexplanation.
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innocent explanation

collocation in English

meaningsofinnocentandexplanation

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innocent
adjective
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/ˈɪn.ə.sənt/us
/ˈɪn.ə.sənt/
(of a person) not guilty of a ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
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/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition ofinnocentandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I must point out, however, that the accused has on oath given aninnocentexplanationin general of these actions in question.
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We do not believe that those things are the result of some agricultural project; nor do we regard them as having someinnocentexplanation.
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There may be someinnocentexplanationof this.
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It is possible that there is aninnocentexplanation.
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He did not provide aninnocentexplanationto the police.
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It is particularly important that a young person should provide anyinnocentexplanation, should there be one, for his or her conduct.
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Perhaps there is aninnocentexplanationfor this change.
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They are all acts that are capable of aninnocentexplanationor a guilty explanation.
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If theinnocentexplanationleaves a doubt in the mind of the court, he does not have to explain it away completely.
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The information exists—and if there is aninnocentexplanationfor the relationship and the flow of payments, let us hear it.
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It will be mistaken, perhaps, in putting an adverse view upon things that have happened which are capable of perfectlyinnocentexplanation.
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There could be a perfectlyinnocentexplanationfor that inconsistency, but it could be sought out only by further investigation.
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Perhaps there is an entirelyinnocentexplanationfor that omission.
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If there is aninnocentexplanation, it should be given at once.
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On other occasions, the failure to put forward aninnocentexplanationmay cry out for clarification.
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There may be a straightforward,innocentexplanationfor the delay in these payments, about which there is a scintilla of doubt, but how wide is a scintilla?
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However, there may be aninnocentexplanation.
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Is there aninnocentexplanation?
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Hassine then took the stand in his own defense and, for the first time since his arrest, offered aninnocentexplanationfor his role in the conspiracy.
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