adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the evolutionary scale (=the way in which animals have developed over time from simple ones to more complicated and more intelligent ones)
▪ Birds are much lower on the evolutionary scale than dogs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
biologist
▪ Secondly, evolutionary biologists have tested their theories by searching for expected patterns of behaviour across different human cultures.
▪ Again and again in recent years evolutionary biologists have found themselves returning to the theme of parasites.
▪ Food for thought on a wet day for both the developmental and evolutionary biologist.
▪ In the 1970s evolutionary biologists realized that species do not change much.
biology
▪ The crucial question for evolutionary biology is where the balance is struck between signalling real information about your state and signalling misinformation.
▪ But after the Council, the Church had opened itself increasingly to the insights of modern psychology and evolutionary biology.
▪ The rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century crystallized the intellectual and political imperatives of evolutionary biology.
▪ Here, parexcellence, is the meeting of the ways for developmental and evolutionary biology.
change
▪ What undoubtedly stimulated great evolutionary changes in vertebrate history was the emergence of the first amniote egg.
▪ It follows from all this that natural selection can not be the sole explanation of evolutionary change.
▪ First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change.
▪ The relevance of this little piece of history is considerable, we are effectively going through just such an evolutionary change today.
▪ Such a unit of goodness has been defined as the result of the slightest favourable evolutionary change that could occur.
▪ When these two separately evolved features came together, some interesting evolutionary changes became possible.
▪ Drugs, too, lead to evolutionary change.
▪ One qualification is that some evolutionary changes occur by chance, without natural selection.
development
▪ The change appears to be a genuine evolutionary development that has taken place with unusual rapidity.
▪ One can explain many apparently strange human characteristics by pointing to their value for survival at various stages of evolutionary development.
▪ Ethology has always been profoundly concerned with evolutionary development, with phylogeny.
▪ Both were escaping from an historicist notion of evolutionary development, traditional to their disciplines.
▪ This evolutionary development was not the result of the growing significance of natural rights doctrines.
event
▪ Were metazoans part of that evolutionary event?
▪ One implication of the neutral theory is that we can use molecular changes as a kind of clock to measure evolutionary events.
▪ They were called the chordates, and started a momentous chain of evolutionary events.
▪ There is time for many cultural evolutionary events in each generation.
history
▪ The evolutionary history of Figure 4 is a reconstruction.
▪ And always, wherever they went, the animals were tame because they had never in their evolutionary history encountered human predators.
▪ Psychological explanations may be to the point here, or speculations about the evolutionary history of the faculties in question.
▪ We know that Mars underwent extensive internal melting early in its evolutionary history.
▪ They will find anatomical and physiological features which are the product of an evolutionary history.
▪ Figure 4 shows one particular evolutionary history consisting of no more than 29 generations.
▪ The book in other ways also reflects how little they had yet formulated a detailed evolutionary history of society.
▪ Every evolutionary history consists of a particular pathway, or trajectory, through genetic space.
ladder
▪ Rather than drawing some evolutionary ladder or tree, the best representation is a sort of multi-twigged bush.
▪ As we descend the evolutionary ladder, our behaviour becomes, increasingly extreme.
path
▪ On the other hand, the soft parts of most dinosaurs took the right evolutionary path.
▪ Information from the planetary probes indicates that all the terrestrial planets have undergone differentiation, but they have followed different evolutionary paths.
▪ Is it possible that the two planets started out similar to each other and followed divergent evolutionary paths?
pressure
▪ But to the ethologist, every species is fascinating - the end-point of millions of years of complex evolutionary pressures.
▪ It is therefore hard to see personal identification as the main evolutionary pressure leading to the famous black and white pattern.
process
▪ In theory, there is no limit to this evolutionary process of self-development.
▪ This evolutionary process will be different for each company.
▪ Social selection is undoubtedly one of the main evolutionary processes responsible for the emergence of ... behavioural characteristics.
▪ She saw his physical symptoms as evidence that he was trying unsuccessfully to apply the brakes on a natural evolutionary process.
▪ The former was essential to the evolutionary process, as individuals competed for resources.
▪ The one exception to this evolutionary process will be in new plants or divisions-the so-called greenfield sites.
▪ However, for a variety of reasons animals become less similar as the evolutionary process continues and molecule patterns begin to differ.
▪ It is quite possible that the evolutionary process may continue during that time.
progress
▪ An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
▪ Victorian scholars were divided in their views of the precise nature and order of the stages of man's evolutionary progress.
▪ Yet this view implied, or rather was explicitly based in Comte and Spencer, on a historical view of evolutionary progress.
▪ If evolutionary progress had had to rely on single-step selection, it would never have got anywhere.
scale
▪ How coral colonies grow Tearing itself apart Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms.
▪ This sub-order, which is further down the evolutionary scale. includes the Tarsiidae, or tarsiers.
▪ Birds are much lower on the evolutionary scale, which is another criterion in determining what we consider cruelty to animals.
scheme
▪ Cuvier seemed to contemporaries to have had little trouble in demolishing the evolutionary scheme of his contemporary Lamarck.
▪ In this, Ancient Society resembled the other evolutionary schemes for the history of mankind which we have just noted.
▪ Many aspects of the evolutionary scheme which Marx and Engels present would now be unacceptable to anthropologists.
▪ Less acceptable today, surely, is the evolutionary scheme and cultural prejudice that form one aspect of Feuerbach's historical thesis.
sequence
▪ The first such questions arises over the specific status of the evolutionary sequence which is being put forward.
▪ I even had a picture of the evolutionary sequence of bodies leading up to my insects by slow degrees from a dot ancestor.
▪ Fisher imagined the following evolutionary sequence.
theory
▪ Social psychologists, apart from those educated in ethology, have no evolutionary theory.
▪ Indeed it does, and that is exactly what the evolutionary theory would predict.
▪ Secondly, the Fabians pressed evolutionary theory in service of a collectivist ideal.
▪ They were wrong both about how to interpret Genesis and in thinking that evolutionary theory was unimportant to modern science.
▪ The sources of extrapolation theory, like those of evolutionary theory generally, are numerous.
▪ It is an increasingly influential idea in evolutionary theory, and one that will recur throughout the book.
▪ Other evolutionary theories of ageing have been proposed.
▪ There are two kinds of connection between evolutionary theory and ethics: one normative, and one explanatory.
time
▪ Arms races are run in evolutionary time, rather than on the timescale of individual lifetimes.
▪ In this light of evolutionary time, ecology can be seen as one long dress rehearsal.
▪ This process of civilisation has, within the vastness of evolutionary time, hardly started.
▪ This species, over evolutionary time, has lost its worker caste altogether.
▪ Nevertheless, it is likely that birds have selected for sweeter fruits through evolutionary time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ evolutionary biology
▪ an evolutionary process
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He also uses the idea of mankind as food to emphasise the evolutionary truth of man as one more source of protein.
▪ He thinks they have reached an evolutionary dead end.
▪ In fact, without evolutionary and learning pressures, the society of mind in a brain would turn into a bureaucracy.
▪ It follows from all this that natural selection can not be the sole explanation of evolutionary change.
▪ Spontaneous social orders, by contrast, are evolutionary in nature and are not the product of rational design.
▪ The evolutionary history of Figure 4 is a reconstruction.
▪ The one exception to this evolutionary process will be in new plants or divisions-the so-called greenfield sites.
▪ The sequence adjacent to the insertion site is very well conserved over large evolutionary distances such as between fungi, algae and bacteria.