How to Use evolutionary biology in a Sentence

evolutionary biology

noun

• Modern evolutionary biology, and a lot of data, shows that doesn’t have to be true.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2020
• As told in textbooks and evolutionary biology classes, the earliest horses were small, dwelled in forests and had four toes on their front legs and three on their back legs.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
• In contrast, the top-down method looks at modern animals and tries to trace their evolutionary biology to life’s early days.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• In the fall of 2019, the world began one of the largest evolutionary biology experiments in modern history.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
• Rick Prum, a professor of ornithology and evolutionary biology at Yale and a senior author of the study, observes in a Yale press release.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
• The book is laced with nuggets of evolutionary biology and examples of animals with the ability to disguise themselves.
  — Lucie Elven, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
• In economics and evolutionary biology, where the idea of signalling grew up, a valid signal needs to be costly—otherwise it can be easily faked.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• This sensitivity likely has roots in evolutionary biology; warning calls for many species also sit in this range, and failure to hear them could mean death.
  — Tina Tallon, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
• Stepping into that role was sort of a natural fit for Bergstrom, whose background in evolutionary biology steeled him for contentious debates.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2020
• But exactly which of these is truly the closest relative to the very first animals has remained one of the most contentious questions in evolutionary biology.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• Decades of research in evolutionary biology have led to two classic solutions to this problem.
  — Athena Aktipis, Slate Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
• But Michael Worobey, head of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, who was also not involved in the recent study, is more sanguine.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2019
• For Tyler Moy, that’s a degree from Harvard, in human evolutionary biology, the study of 4 million years of physical and behavioral development of the species.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2017
• For some reason, every book in the self-improvement genre veers into evolutionary biology or what some study about dopamine and rats tells us about human accomplishment.
  — Kate Bachelder Odell, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
• There are schisms even within Wilson’s own field of evolutionary biology.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021
• At its core, biophilic design is about the connection between humans and nature, which goes back to human evolutionary biology.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 14 June 2019
• Ross’s proof starts off relying on fossils in museums, books and articles on evolutionary biology, and so on.
  — Nikk Effingham, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
• Nor is there one for ecology and studying the environment, or one for evolutionary biology.
  — Devang Mehta, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• One of the contestants, a charismatic woman named Evvie who is earning her Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Harvard, steps forward to reassure him.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2021
• Wilson, a giant of evolutionary biology, describes his first explorations of nature in the swamps of Alabama.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Yet few cancer biologists study natural selection, and that’s what Townsend has brought to the cancer field with his background in evolutionary biology.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018
• An evolutionary biology prof who keeps threatening to write the science book that will rock the academic world, the remarkably unremarkable family man would appear to be the last person to crash the subconscious of those unknown to him.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2023
• Jay Storz, the author of the study and a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Nebraska, says these little fellas are generally found around sea level.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 31 Mar. 2020
• Sadly, not enough people read On the Origin of Species today—even graduate students in evolutionary biology don’t all read it—but no one escapes its meaning and its implications.
  — David Quammen, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• There’s senior midfielder Tyler Warner, a key to Monday’s game with his faceoff work and an ecology and evolutionary biology major.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 29 May 2018
• The history of linguistics and evolutionary biology have been braided together for as long as the latter has existed.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life.
  — Vaughn Cooper, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2021
• Both these food sources would have encouraged wildcats to adapt to living with people; in the lingo of evolutionary biology, natural selection favored those wildcats that were able to cohabit with humans and thereby gain access to the trash and mice.
  — Andrew C. Kitchener, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• That conclusion runs exactly counter to the overwhelming weight of opinion among scientists in the fields of virology and evolutionary biology.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• The other day on the nation’s number one podcast on Spotify, Rogan had on a frequent guest, Bret Weinstein, a former professor of evolutionary biology.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024