8 sentences with 'evolutionary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word evolutionary and other words derived from it.
• « Soot and dirt covered every surface - early evolutionary biologists noticed that certain moths with a soot-browning mutation survived and multiplied while their normal light-coloured cousins died. »
• « Mendel was rediscovered by several scholars simultaneously in 1900, and in the process, became linked to Darwin's evolutionary concepts. »
• « A large number of people, starting with elite male theorists, came to believe that Darwinism implied that a kind of parallel evolutionary process was at work in human society. In this view, success and power are the result of superior breeding, not just luck and education. »
• « Illustrations of the evolutionary process in the encyclopaedias and dictionaries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were replete with an evolutionary chain from small creatures, through monkeys and apes, to the non-white human races, culminating in the supposedly "fully evolved European race". »
• « As an evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, I have found shells to be more than just beautiful variations of spiral architecture. These works of art have led me to consider some broader questions, such as those of their functionality and construction. »
• « The function of insect wings 250 million years ago was to capture the sun's rays to keep the body warm. Flying was still far from evolutionary plans. »
• « A great admirer of Darwin, he fought against the fundamentalism that sought to remove or reduce evolutionary ideas from school textbooks. »
• « In many countries it is customary to take an afternoon nap. Specialists say that the brain finds it easier to sleep in the afternoon, which seems to indicate a certain evolutionary predisposition to napping. However, they add, those who sleep well at night do not need a nap. »