evolutionary history
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandhistory
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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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history
noun
uk/ˈhɪs.tər.i/us/ˈhɪs.t̬ɚ.i/
(the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandhistoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In other words,evolutionaryhistorytends to repeat itself.
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Parasitological similarity is generated by the interaction of the ecology, physiology andevolutionaryhistoryof both parasites and hosts.
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Overwhelming cross-cultural evidence suggests that the reduction or withdrawal of optimal care when child-rearing circumstances are unfavorable is a prominent feature of humanevolutionaryhistory.
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Its crucial position in theevolutionaryhistoryfrom invertebrates to vertebrates makes the lancelet an important model for studying the evolution of glycosylation.
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Functional questions address the benefits conferred, at present, by a behavior, while evolutionary questions address theevolutionaryhistoryof a behavior.
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The four major perspectives from which behavior can be analyzed are proximate mechanisms, adaptive explanations,evolutionaryhistory, and development.
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Consequently, the threat-simulation system was selected for during ourevolutionaryhistory.
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Living organisms have continually moved into newer environmental regimes over theirevolutionaryhistory.
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This would make sense considering the importance of mating, reproduction, and parenting throughoutevolutionaryhistory.
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Soltis proposes a model for the signal effect of cry acoustics on parental response, based on human and animalevolutionaryhistory.
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These regularities are characteristics of the physical environment that were more or less invariant during theevolutionaryhistoryof a species or of its ancestors.
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From the perspective ofevolutionaryhistory, schizophrenia would then be a benign trait, neither enhancing nor curtailing survival to reproduction.
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The brain is incredibly complicated, and has a very longevolutionaryhistorypeppered with idiosyncratic pressures and solutions.
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The paper was eloquent in its defense of one type of biological molecules, namely semantides (literally, molecules with meaning), as sources for reconstructingevolutionaryhistory.
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The evolution of these traits is influenced by adaptive processes and by theevolutionaryhistoryof a lineage.
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He insisted thatevolutionaryhistoryactually explains nothing about what causes development.
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The marine mammal species examined here span a wide range of taxonomy and vary in their foraging habits, environments, andevolutionaryhistory.
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For one, these structures have a longevolutionaryhistory, with homologous structures across a wide variety of species.
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