evolutionary mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandmechanism
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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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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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But both sought the answer in some sort ofevolutionarymechanism.
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Several authors argue that this change in timing is the keyevolutionarymechanismdriving the enlargement of the brain.
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They conjectured that this might constitute a novelevolutionarymechanismincreasing genetic diversity over long time periods.
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Thus, unlike the first scenario, which requires anevolutionarymechanismresponsible for the integration of distinct systems, the gestural-complex scenario predicts functional differentiation.
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The information content of the module can be related to the plausibility of accretion as an in vitroevolutionarymechanism.
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Transmembrane protein domains rarely use covalent domain recombination as anevolutionarymechanism.
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The union of genes that occurs during fertilization is a criticalevolutionarymechanismand the means by which humans have improved cultivars through selective plant breeding.
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This putativeevolutionarymechanismof entropic increase (life) supports the view that non-individual behavior, intelligence, and perhaps even consciousness, were destined to arise from biological systems.
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The answer—and this should be fundamental to all thinking about conservation—is that we should seek to preserve the vitality and viability of our environment as a living,evolutionarymechanism.
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One modern version of the theory has invoked theevolutionarymechanismof group selection in order to explain the apparent genetic-based task specialization of shamanism.
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This is anevolutionarymechanismto increase dispersal distance away from the parent via wind.
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The generality of this process is remarkable, as is its potency across the vast range of the brain's evolutionary mechanisms.
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As a consequence, interest in the evolutionary mechanisms transforming objects, organisms, behavior, and culture pervades philosophic and scientific discourse.
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The evolutionary mechanisms and genetic changes which are necessary remain poorly investigated, however.
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The more we understand about evolutionary mechanisms, the more awed appreciation we have for them.
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However, in attempting to assimilate cultural evolution and niche construction they are conflating three distinct evolutionary mechanisms.
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Thus, the exquisite evolutionary mechanisms brought to bear in conveying the human capabilities of learning, memory, planning, and choice may also have some costs and liabilities.
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This paper tries to integrate the proximate, developmental models with the ultimate, evolutionary ones, suggesting that two developmentaly different etiologies of sociopathy emerge from two different evolutionary mechanisms.
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