evolutionary scale

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryandscale

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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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scale
noun
uk
/skeɪl/us
/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandscalefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This fact required the development of models to calculate the minimal number of mutational events that hypothetically separate two chains on theevolutionaryscale.
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Animals far below the dog on theevolutionaryscale, whose nervous systems lack the cerebral cortex, or even lack a brain altogether, learn from experience.
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Finally, cognitive archaeology works best on anevolutionaryscaleof resolution.
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Evidence from one or two fruiting seasons may not fully indicate the relative importance of different consumers on an ecological orevolutionaryscale.
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The idea was that animals were lower down theevolutionaryscalebut had better atuned senses than humans.
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Instead, they cited extrinsic, abiotic factors such as expansion as the driving factor on a largeevolutionaryscale.
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Host-switching and host-addition are not mutually exclusive and may operate at different evolutionary scales.
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These factors often affect body size on anevolutionaryscale, but conditions such as availability of food and habitat size can act much more quickly on a species.
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It is for this reason that a prevalence of feminine elements in a person corresponded to an actual regression of the human being on theevolutionaryscale.
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Processes occurring on molecular, social, and evolutionary scales are subject to investigation.
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