evolutionary biology
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- noun
- /ˌiːvəˈluːʃənəri baɪˈɑːlədʒi/
- Specialized
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biología evolutiva
- The principles of evolutionary biology help us understand the origins of complex behaviors in animals.
- ecology and evolutionary biology
- unresolved question in evolutionary biology
- evolutionary biology and psychology
And in some sense, this is a place where ecology, evolutionary biology, meets medicine.
- And in some sense, this is a place where ecology, evolutionary biology, meets medicine.
- And it's been seriously challenged, I would say, by modern evolutionary biology.
- One of the biggest questions that's now really been quite well answered by evolutionary biology is why do we age?
- Now, one of the really important ideas coming from evolutionary biology into the study of antibiotic resistance is on this slide.
- But, but the concept of punctuated equilibrium was a very important concept in evolutionary biology.
- And yes, you can use evolutionary biology.
- And that's not different because I studied evolutionary biology.
- It's been applied to biology, evolutionary biology, the evolution of species, their conflicts.
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Understanding the patterns and power of phenotypic selection is central to evolutionary biology.
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Our understanding of the evolutionary biology of figs is also currently hampered by a poor knowledge of their ecology.
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I heard you basically wrote the book on evolutionary biology.
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The results will be made freely available to the evolutionary biology community.
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In this way, evolutionary biology is more like the study of history than, say, chemistry.
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Unfortunately, however, evolutionary biology is not like most sciences.
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Making evolutionary biology a part of the medical curriculum is not only realistic but essential.
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His work in promoting the understanding of evolutionary biology extends beyond the college classroom.
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One of the biggest questions that's now really been quite well answered by evolutionary biology is why do we age?
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Kindness and cruelty both have their place in nature, and evolutionary biology helps explain why (p. 54).
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'evolutionary' (pertaining to evolution) modifies 'biology' (the study of living organisms), yielding the expected meaning of the branch of biology concerned with evolution. This transparent, compositional pattern is common across languages and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Evolutionary biology comes from the parts evolution (slow change over time) and biology (the study of living things). Imagine a very long photo album that shows animals and plants changing little by little over many years, so the term means 'the study of how life changes over time'.