10 sentences with 'evolution'
Example sentences and phrases with the word evolution and other words derived from it.
• « The jumping genes may be Mother Nature's secret agents in evolution; her jokers in the game of life on Earth. »
• « In 1859, when Charles Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution, science was unaware of the existence of genes and DNA. »
• « The Bronze Age saw the rise and evolution of increasingly sophisticated ancient states, some of which became full-fledged empires. »
• « The early military revolution (i.e. the evolution of gunpowder warfare during and after the Renaissance period) resulted in highly trained soldiers with the most advanced military technology in the world by the end of the 17th century. »
• « All other civilisations were, according to this model, considered hopelessly backward or stuck at an earlier stage of cultural or even biological evolution. »
• « Although many historians have taken issue with the term "revolution" in describing what was much more of a slow evolution at the time, there is no doubt that the changes that industrial technology brought about were truly revolutionary. »
• « As early as 1870, three-quarters of British scientists believed the theory of evolution to be accurate, even before the mechanism by which evolution occurred, genetics, was understood. »
• « In 1871, in "The Origin of Man", Darwin explicitly linked human evolution to his earlier model and argued that humans are descended from other hominids - the great apes. »
• « The mechanism of how evolution occurred was unknown during Darwin's lifetime, at least to many people. »
• « Influenced by modernist philosophers, by great writers such as Shakespeare, and by Darwin's work on evolution, Freud came to believe that the mind itself 'evolved' from infancy to adulthood in a fundamentally hostile psychic environment. »