evolutionary path

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryandpath

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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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path
noun[C]
uk
/pɑːθ/us
/pæθ/
a route or track between one place and another, or the direction in which something ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandpathfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If so, what makes the histories of creole languages special, so as to favor such a differentevolutionarypath?
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We summarize briefly theevolutionarypathand give some of the important milestones along the way.
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We perceive that the development of robotic technologies to aid recovery and rehabilitation following injury will probably follow a similarevolutionarypath.
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Proficiency requires evidence that the trait is on anevolutionarypathto optimality, though there may be constraints that keep it from achieving optimality.
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I believe that there will be anevolutionarypathwhereby countries move closer together.
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I see nothing wrong with anevolutionarypathto a single currency by way of a de facto common currency.
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This market has followed anevolutionarypathdriven by miniaturization and cost reduction enabled by progress in design and manufacture.
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Humanity is thereby assisted on its presumed cyclical, but ever progressive,evolutionarypath.
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The difference between vertebrate and cephalopod retinas presents an interesting puzzle ofevolutionarypathwhich is not yet fully settled.
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Thus, it is a useful, quantifiable measure of how far along theevolutionarypatha hominid fossil might be placed.
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Thisevolutionarypathmirrors that of birds evolving from small bipedal dinosaurs.
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Some definitions simply refer to all forms of socialism that follow a gradual, reformist orevolutionarypathto socialism, rather than a revolutionary one.
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Theevolutionarypathbetween arboreality and flight has been proposed through a number of hypotheses.
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Phenotypic plasticity is important because it allows an individual to adapt to a changing environment and can ultimately alter theirevolutionarypath.
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These have a differentevolutionarypathfrom normal spiral galaxies, showing red spiral galaxies can stop making new stars and but not change their shape.
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On the evolutionary tree shown during the program, a fifth species, the desert dragon is identified by name only, and the program does not theorize about its possibleevolutionarypath.
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The fossil record shows aspects of the meanderingevolutionarypathfrom early aquatic vertebrates to mammals, with a host of transitional fossils, though there are still large blank areas.
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Many of the somatic evolutionary studies have traditionally been focused on clonal expansion, as recurrent types of changes can be traced to illustrate theevolutionarypathbased on available methods.
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In this paper we explore evolutionary paths from single equilibria to higher-order attractors and the existence of polymorphisms that do not arise from equilibria.
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Theevolutionarypaththe star takes as it moves along the red-giant branch, that ends finally with the complete collapse of the core, depends on the mass of the star.
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