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• His fingers were slender and delicate, an evolutionary advantage for a safecracker.2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 281. From the entry safecracker
• The change would have been the result of microevolution, or an evolutionary change occurring within a species.2020 November 9, Nicholas St Fleur, “How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry microevolution
• Different studies indicate that they possess some evolutionary mechanisms to combat toxic situation.2016, “Chapter 15: Role of Aspergillus in bioremediation process”, in Vijai Kumar Gupta, editor, New and Future Developments in Microbial…. From the entry bioremediation
• It’s not only those hoofy legs they’ve modified and lost in their consequent evolutionary journey.2016 November 30, Elsa Panciroli, “How did the whale get its 'moustache'?”, in The Guardian. From the entry hoofy
• Polyploidy and hybridisation are important evolutionary forces shaping plant genomes and underlying the huge angiosperm diversity.2015 July 8, Nayyereh Olanj et al., “The striking and unexpected cytogenetic diversity of genus Tanacetum L. (Asteraceae): a cytometric…. From the entry hybridisation
• Overall, this character diversification reflects the polychaetotic or oligochaetotic evolutionary tendencies within this group of F.2015 September 11, “Intraspecific Phenotypic Variation and Morphological Divergence of Strains of Folsomia candida (Willem) (Collembola…. From the entry oligochaetotic
• As the humans establish tentative bonds with their evolutionary cousins, the inter-species waters start to muddy.2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream – first look review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry muddy
• The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light.2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist. From the entry complex
• So you're climbing the evolutionary ladder, and you've just begun to break the chains of apedom.2013, John O'Bryan, A History of Weapons, page 14. From the entry apedom
• Cavemen have represented Darwin′s repugnant evolutionary ideals and even suggest civilisation′s tenuousness.2010, Allen A. Debus, Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past That We Love to Fear, page 87. From the entry caveman
• Evolutionary traps can threaten populations and species if they result in widespread reductions in survival and reproduction.2010, Martin A. Schlaepfer, Paul W. Sherman, Michael C. Runge, “29: Decision Making, Environmental Change, and Population Persistence”, in…. From the entry evolutionary trap
• Failing to statistically test for treeness, they reify the evolutionary trajectories assumed at the outset.2007, Gísli Pálsson, Anthropology and the New Genetics, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry treeness
• To begin with, both models see social change as evolutionary and as an 'ascensional spiral towards progress.'2006, Lisa Hill, The Passionate Society: The Social, Political and Moral Thought of Adam Ferguson, page 133. From the entry ascensional
• We are not a whole new experiment in the evolutionary process, but a superprimate.2006, Ann Allart Wilcock, An Occupational Perspective of Health, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry superprimate
• The state is neither universal nor a higher stage of some sort of teleological evolutionary process.1990, Philip G. Cerny, “The Modern State at the Crossroads: Structuring the Field of Political Action”, in The Changing Architecture of…. From the entry virtuous circle
• Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.1987, Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone, Wall Street (motion picture), spoken by Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas). From the entry greed
• Plant and animal species of hoary antiquity or at an evolutionary dead end seem similarly outdated.1985, David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry hoary
• These are legitimate fruit-eaters, furthering the plant's evolutionary compromise of providing food in exchange for dispersal.1980, Jennifer Owen, Feeding Strategy. From the entry fruit-eater
• They stood half way in the evolutionary process by which archaic rumor mongering developed into popular journalism.1976, Robert Darnton with Bernhard Fabian and Roy McKeen Wiles, edited by Paul J. Korshin, The Widening Circle: Essays on the Circulation…. From the entry chronique scandaleuse
• Opposed to the evolutionary theory of the universe is the theory of the steady state universe.1962, Clifford D. Simak, The Solar System: Our New Front Yard, page 70. From the entry evolutionary theory
• From the evolutionary standpoint, the afterbrain will never develop if the forebrain makes all of the decisions.1961, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction - Volume 68. From the entry afterbrain
• Paths scratched in the mosses on tree trunks mark the presence of drepanosaurs, another of Madygen's evolutionary oddities.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 161. From the entry drepanosaur
• Like lichens and mycorrhizal relationships, mycoheterotrophy is an evolutionary refrain, and has arisen independently in at least forty-six separate plant lineages.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 173. From the entry mycoheterotrophy
• It explains evolutionary change solely in terms of genetic variation.2020, Martin Hähnel, editor, Aristotelian Naturalism: A Research Companion, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 336. From the entry modern synthesis
• This view also implies that evolutionary history is a linear progression in which one organism became another and then another.2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions…. From the entry scala naturae
• So evolutionary speculation about the origin of human mating strategies not only rests on science’s tendency to ‘zoomorphise’ us.2017 August 9, Holly Dunsworth, Anne Buchanan, “Sex makes babies”, in Aeon. From the entry zoomorphize
• Loss of the parietal foramen is a trait that we see very early in the evolutionary line leading to mammals.2016 September 7, Elsa Panciroli, “Did milk and fur evolve before the earliest mammals?”, in The Guardian. From the entry parietal foramen
• The biological aspects of technology—its klugeyness, its growth and change due to evolutionary tinkering, its many miscellaneous details—are extensive.2016 July 19, Samuel Arbesman, “The Need for Biological Thinking”, in Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension, New…. From the entry klugeyness
• The proposed hypotheses to explain the evolutionary history of this most widespread Anthoxanthum species include autopolyploidization of A.2015 July 25, “Evolutionary and Taxonomic Implications of Variation in Nuclear Genome Size: Lesson from the Grass Genus Anthoxanthum…. From the entry autopolyploidization
• Surely nothing in our evolutionary history suggests that Jennifer Aniston is a permanent denizen of our brain wiring.2014, John Medina, Brain Rules, updated and expanded edition, Pear Press, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry Jennifer Aniston neuron
• This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry defective
• Its evolutionary course is unclear; however, by the late thirties, Shag was all the rage both on and off college campuses.2011, Tamara Stevens, Erin Stevens, editors, Swing Dancing, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry shag
• A difficult task was to review the development of the many new packages contributing to phylogenetics and evolutionary biology.2011, Emmanuel Paradis, Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R, Springer, page vii. From the entry phylogenetics
• Humans have probably believed that water is wet for a very long time, although this belief has no evolutionary history.2008 July 11, Edouard Machery, “A Plea for Human Nature”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 21, number 3, London: Routledge, →DOI, page…. From the entry perdure
• We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition.2007, Anne E. Russon, David R. Begun, The Evolution of Thought. From the entry close the book on
• A fish can change in evolutionary time to whatever unfishy shape is required for its way of life.2005, Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. From the entry unfishy
• Pyroculture happened to be a very successful evolutionary strategy.2005, Frank Niele, Energy: Engine of Evolution, page 94. From the entry pyroculture

Meaning of evolutionary

1. adjective Of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.
2. adjective Having formal similarities to the biological theory of evolution.

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How do you use evolutionary in a sentence?

Evolutionary is used as an adjective. For example: “The evolutionary history of marine mammals includes land-dwelling ancestors.”

What is a short sentence with evolutionary?

“Pyroculture happened to be a very successful evolutionary strategy.”

What does evolutionary mean?

Evolutionary means of or relating to the biological theory of evolution.