evolutionary trajectory

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryandtrajectory

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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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trajectory
noun[C]
uk
/trəˈdʒek.tər.i/us
/trəˈdʒek.tɚ.i/
the curved path that an object follows after it has been thrown or shot into ...
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(Definition ofevolutionaryandtrajectoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The target article nicely reviews two hypotheses about theevolutionarytrajectorythat led to the mammalian isocortex, and presents compelling arguments in favor of one of them.
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Therefore, theevolutionarytrajectoryof the viral infection can not be predicted solely from the characteristics of the fittest sequence.
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This would have led to a somewhat differentevolutionarytrajectoryfor the vertebrate eye than for other animal eyes.
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The widespread occurrence of convergent or parallel evolution suggests that under certain conditions similar evolutionary trajectories are arrived at independently.
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Note that the selection pressure upon a trait is likely to change if it is (especially, primarily or solely) used for a new purpose, potentially initiating a differentevolutionarytrajectory.
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What is unclear in the target article is how these contrastive evolutionary trajectories are supposed to interrelate.
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Thus, under these conditions, evolutionary trajectories may be understood in terms of the simple parameters of (3).
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We have also deepened our understanding of the complex evolutionary trajectories that can produce consonant-agreement patterns which are otherwise rare or unattested.
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The order of tasks (from top to bottom) indicates the time needed for a digital organism to perform that task over the course of theevolutionarytrajectory.
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The role of the broader ecology of figs or fig wasps in determining evolutionary trajectories has been largely ignored.
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