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/ɪvəlˈuːʃənˈɛɹəli/
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-
in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view
the mutation has been evolutionarily successful
How To Use evolutionarily In A Sentence
- The specialist radiates, operates and medicates, turning what should have killed us evolutionarily into "chronic conditions" that cost 19 percent of the GDP to control. Francine Hardaway: Routine Maintenance: Health Care's Contract With America
- These biochemical and organismal effects are evolutionarily dissociable to some extent, because some changes in gene expression appear to have no consequence for organismal phenotype.
- the mutation has been evolutionarily successful
- Humans, especially females, are likewise evolutionarily wired to respond in a nurturing way to faces that have a quality of neoteny, which is to say, the retention of infantile characteristics: large head, wide and prominent eyes, slightly helpless and winsome. For the Cheerleader in Everyone
- Hennig's idea that groups of organisms, or taxa, should be recognized and formally named only in cases where they are evolutionarily real entities, that is "monophyletic", at first was controversial. A New Book
- These characteristics might have been selected evolutionarily. Times, Sunday Times
- Using statistics and computers, a process called bioinformatics, the researcher compared various versions of TRPA1 in assorted organisms today and figuring out how those variations relate to each other evolutionarily. A half-billion years of irritation
- If ornaments appeared in subfamilies or tribes that were phylogenetically separated, these were counted as evolutionarily independent events.
- This evolutionarily maintained mechanism has been detected from yeast to mammalian cells.
- The hagfish, together with lampreys, are living representatives of the jawless vertebrates (class Agnatha) and are considered to be the most evolutionarily ancient vertebrates.