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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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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
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