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26 examples of Evolutionarily in a sentence

Because smiling is evolutionarily contagious, and it suppresses the control we usually have on our facial muscles.
That could happen within the lifetime of a single organism, whereas before they'd built these special information processing structures, that would have had to be learned evolutionarily over hundreds of thousands of years by the individuals dying off that ate that kind of fruit.
It's just that we're always thinking of this guy as lagging behind us, evolutionarily or somehow uncannily creeping up on us, and in some cases, he gets places before us.
It's evolutionarily a bad thing.
And so therefore, if you look at the same region of a genome in many mammals that have been evolutionarily distant from each other and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better understanding of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same in all of those different lineages, species, taxa.
Okay, this was good evolutionarily, but now when it comes to the worldview, it is the exact reason why it's upside down.
One textbook says, for example, "Evolutionarily speaking, vision is useful precisely because it is so accurate."
And yet, we spend virtually nothing to prevent something as tangible and evolutionarily certain as epidemic infectious diseases.
But at least we can say that if an organism dies without reproducing, it's evolutionarily useless, right?
That's because they share the defining characteristics of mammalia and are evolutionarily linked to the rest of the class.
Normally when we mess around with an organism's genes, we make that thing less evolutionarily fit.
And just because something is evolutionarily ancient doesn't mean that it's easy or that we're instantly good at it.
You know what else is evolutionarily ancient?
This built-in sun shield helped protect them from melanoma, likely making them evolutionarily fitter and capable of passing this useful trait on to new generations.
Evolutionarily speaking, we're just a blip.
Well, to end on a very positive note, I think evolutionarily speaking, this is probably a fairly good thing, in the end.
We have become very removed from what our bread really is, which, again, evolutionarily speaking, is very strange.
We're evolutionarily designed to use vision.
It's very old, evolutionarily.
Well, evolutionarily that might make sense, because we know cognitively what we are going to sound like so maybe we don't need to spend energy analyzing the signal.
But evolutionarily, two million years is nothing.
On the other hand, the systems that produce conscious experiences, including feelings of fear and anxiety, involve evolutionarily new regions of the neocortex that are especially well developed in the human brain and poorly developed in rodents.
For one thing, we will not be inclined to incorporate into machines some evolutionarily evolved behaviors of human beings, such as favoring oneself and one’s group.
For example, siblings do not have to grow up together for their resemblance to be evolutionarily meaningful, owing to their common genes.
Oxytocin is active in evolutionarily old areas of our brain, outside of our conscious awareness.
Yet, when it comes to the decline of some species (say, disease-susceptible island birds), we may choose not to intervene, not least because, realistically, it would be hard to resist their replacement by evolutionarily “superior” models (such as pathogen-resistant birds).