evolutionary process

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryandprocess

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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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process
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprəʊ.ses/
us
/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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Section 2 provides general background on genetic programming: an automated design and invention technique patterned after theevolutionaryprocessin nature.
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Section 2 provides general background on genetic programming utilizing an automated design and invention technique patterned after theevolutionaryprocessin nature.
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Anevolutionaryprocessfor kinematic synthesis makes progress by varying and selecting mechanisms.
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To speed up theevolutionaryprocess, we keep the elitists from one generation to the next generation according to certain elitist rate.
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Theevolutionaryprocessmay work on the global system with a better result than locally because of its own qualities.
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In our implementation, theevolutionaryprocessis operated in two different phases by adopting two action granularities, general and specialized, respectively.
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Theevolutionaryprocessthus selects for universes that are increasingly biologically friendly.
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Theevolutionaryprocesswas limited to five generations, which captured most of the fitness increase while allowing for a relatively speedy generation process.
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From this culturalevolutionaryprocess, the rules of conduct, morals, and traditions emerge that shape human interactions into the orderly forms of civilization.
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Art and writing are seen as the culminations of a continuousevolutionaryprocess, of which an early phase was the emergence of language.
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In contrast, theevolutionaryprocesshad considerable time and computational power to select optimal heuristics from a set of alternatives.
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The historical precedents in the book do show where theevolutionaryprocessin building development brought them into being.
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Accurately estimating the form and strength of these selection components allows us to understand thisevolutionaryprocessin detail.
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This simulatedevolutionaryprocessmoves towards an optimal population in which individuals have the highest possible fitness.
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As a result, philosophical modernity assumes that human beings are merely a higher form of animal life resulting from a slowevolutionaryprocess.
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For present purposes, the most importantevolutionaryprocesswas the increasing autonomy of the kouenkai from the candidate.
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Theevolutionaryprocess, as always, is an interplay of chance and necessity, the end result being inherently unpredictable.
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Such machines could presumably even undergo anevolutionaryprocess.
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So, by inference to the best explanation, our universe is actualized by a super-cosmicevolutionaryprocessthat selects for perfection.
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Players have only to observe the strategic payoffs and adopt the best strategies through anevolutionaryprocess.
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