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evolutionary

of or relating to or produced by evolution

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Six example sentences with evolutionary, each labelled with its topic.

  • The long beak of the finch is an evolutionary outcome, shaped over many generations by which seeds the island offered.

    Science

  • Antibiotic resistance is an evolutionary problem: the bacteria that survive each course pass their sturdier traits to the next colony.

    Medicine

  • Some researchers give an evolutionary account of fear, arguing that ancestors who startled easily left more descendants than the calm ones.

    Psychology

  • Evolutionary economists treat firms like species, arguing that markets select the routines that survive rather than the cleverest plans.

    Economics

  • An evolutionary account of fairness asks why creatures shaped by competition would ever come to share food at all.

    Philosophy

  • The antenna's odd shape came from an evolutionary algorithm that bred thousands of designs and kept the best performers.

    Technology

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