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evolutionary biology
noun
- the branches of biology that deal with the processes of change in populations of organisms, especially taxonomy, paleontology, ethology, population genetics, and ecology.
Example Sentences
“The deep open ocean is a sensitive environment and changing temperatures would essentially shift the balance of the ecosystem that anglerfishes have adapted to exploit,” Chase Brownstein, a research associate at Yale University’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program, told Salon.
Evolutionary biology has been repeatedly proven true for nearly two centuries, without which all the medical innovations even Republicans depend on would not have been developed.
It has been hypothesized that the reason our reward system is triggered by sugar is rooted in evolutionary biology.
“If our lives are given meaning by 80 years, would they be more meaningful if we live 60 years or substantially less meaningful if we lived 150 years? It seems kind of arbitrary once you start looking at the evolutionary biology of why we live the lives we do, that that should be the limit that we should be accepting.”
Prof Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology, in Germany, told BBC News that the history of modern humans will now have to be rewritten.
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