How To Use Evolutionary In A Sentence

  • Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
  • The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
  • Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
  • It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.
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  • The Dutch United Provinces supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
  • Now the postrider was to the people of Revolutionary days what the telegraph or the telephone is to us today. Caesar Rodney's Ride
  • As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.
  • Members of the other parties were described as counter-revolutionary.
  • Revolutionary applications of BEC in lithography, nanotechnology and holography appear to be just round the corner. The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics - Information for the Public
  • But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee. From October to Brest-Litovsk
  • For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.
  • Forget Mr Motivator, this bumbag revival can be revolutionary to the fashion glitterati. TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
  • The present chapter takes a very broad comparative and evolutionary look at family and kinship. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • In a previous essay, we saw that a super-majority of evolutionary biologists self-identity as "pure naturalists," providing us good reason to think that a non-teleological prism is used to shape our current mainstream understanding of evolution. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
  • The partisans fought a revolutionary war in a constantly shifting pattern, and their leadership did so with a political aim.
  • These populations offer a unique opportunity to monitor evolutionary dynamics in ancestral populations that harbor multiple strains of Wolbachia.
  • The main concern of his 300 undercover police spies had always been sniffing out political enemies of the revolutionary government. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
  • The British Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake introduced the concepts of Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance in his revolutionary 1981 book A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation.
  • The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day. Che Guevara 
  • The 10 proposed novel evolutionary groups are indicated by braces to the right of the groups.
  • This is the heart of my main criticism of Dawkins and every other materialist who believes that we are the products of unguided evolutionary processes: you can't get here from there.
  • An evolutionary biologist at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, specializes in trapdoor and funnel-web spiders, and tarantulas.
  • Her longings grew more varied and virulent with each passing year: raw pig meat, Hawaiian pineapples infeasible to procure in revolutionary Cuba, chewing tobacco, cockscomb stew. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
  • From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
  • It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
  • He offers an impressive specification of the role that disgust plays in Freud's evolutionary theory of repression.
  • As Third World capitalism develops, the working class is destined to play its classic revolutionary role.
  • So it will prove in the future, for nothing can frustrate the evolutionary movement nor prevent humanity as a whole from attaining and achieving its purpose.
  • In view of this, previously proposed timescales for evolutionary events may need to be reassessed.
  • It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
  • As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West.
  • It is impossible to exaggerate the revolutionary significance of the recognition of a binding judicial tribunal external to the realm.
  • In the historical development of cartography, when a new type or style of map appears on the scene, it is normally derived from earlier forms in some evolutionary process.
  • A postdoctoral position, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is available to work with Dr Tokiharu Takahashi on the evolutionary origin of multiple cell lineages in vertebrate haematopoiesis. Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • Gregory's procedure was little less revolutionary than that of the King, but the claim to depose might appear as only a concomitant to the power already wielded by Popes in bestowing crowns, while for Gregory it had by this time become the copingstone in the fabric of those relations between Church and State which he and his party were building up. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304
  • This paper describes a case study of adaptation, constraint, and evolutionary innovation in pierid butterflies.
  • El Barzon (the yoke) takes it's name from the revolutionary saying, "the yoke is broken, but the ox goes on". The middle class revolt
  • Patterns of adult body size are likely the evolutionary consequence of variation in juvenile survivorship among populations.
  • The influential evolutionary biologist John Maynard Smith coined the culinary term “primordial pizza” to capture the spottiness of this idea. SuperCooperators
  • It is also well known that men lie somewhat differently to women, doubtless for sound reasons of evolutionary biology. Times, Sunday Times
  • Who is Dawkins, asks McGrath, to belittle theism when such giants of evolutionary theory did not?
  • What she finds particularly galling is the tea partiers 'oft-repeated revolutionary cry of taxation without representation, despite the election of a president on the highest voter turnout since 1968. Three books on the Tea Party, reviewed by Steven Levingston
  • Meysman et al. also assign a "revolutionary" position to bioturbation in the grand scheme of evolution: "Benthic fauna had to adapt to the newly emerging bioturbated sediment conditions, thereby fuelling the 'Cambrian explosion'". Bioturbation all around you
  • Studies indicate that light regulation and control of biorhythms are functionally interrelated and possibly have a common evolutionary origin.
  • This was really the beginning, the outstart, of Nelson's great career; for Hood's interest in him, then aroused, and deepened by experience to the utmost confidence and appreciation, made itself felt the instant the French Revolutionary War began. The Life of Nelson
  • She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
  • It is likely that what we think of as winter blues has its origins in evolutionary biology. The Sun
  • In fact, I argue that evolutionary processes are the only known processes which can generate such nested hierarchies.
  • The revolutionary socialists only agreed to cease their protest when they were invited to an after-show lig in one of the capital's most expensive pubs.
  • It is a reminder of how revolutionary their fast, loud and minimal music initially was.
  • Move to the Left, encourage mass protest, and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation.
  • In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable.
  • By contrast, at the heart of the third version is the revolutionary turbulence of a "rotatory movement that never comes to a standstill," and which Schelling compares to an "unremitting wheel" and the 'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
  • And he said he was relishing the prospect of trading blows with the self-styled revolutionary. The Sun
  • Revolutionary cadres are not indestructible.
  • This may become an especially acute problem for a newly installed revolutionary regime, for example the Soviet Union.
  • The beats on Revolutionary Vol.2 might seem a little minimalist to some, but Immortal is that caliber of emcee who needs no distractions when he's on the mic to make his words felt.
  • His radical plans include a revolutionary, sliding lightweight roof, as well as new buildings to house a fashion and art college, multiplex cinema, luxury flats and even a centre for the town's youth.
  • Ahmadinejad's 'victory' saps the Islamic Republic yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Ahmadinejad\'s \'victory\' saps the Islamic Republic '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: The Islamic Republic needs to seize the moment to respond to Iranians and the wider world before it traps itself into becoming the Islamic Republic of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, an isolated military dictatorship akin to North Korea or Myanmar. Ahmadinejad's 'victory' saps the Islamic Republic
  • A computer boffin is set to make £5million from his revolutionary photo technology.
  • And this was really the great - the last crop of great evolutionary biologists from the 20th century. Punk Rock Professor Talks Anarchy And Evolution
  • Real scientists are mostly plugging along, exploring and refuting evolutionary theory's basic constructs all the time.
  • Might there be a universal selective benefit that could explain the evolutionary persistence of introns?
  • The sans-culottes had played a role in revolutionary events since 1789, but they had, as a class, received few gains.
  • The northern expedition of Jiang Jieshi's National Revolutionary Army, with the aid of Soviet general Vasili Blyukher (1889–1938, then using the name Galen), followed the old Taiping route from Guangdong through Changsha in Hunan (July 11) to Hankou (Sept. 6) and Wuchang (Oct. 10, captured on the 15th anniversary of the Republican Revolution). 1926, March 20
  • He extrapolated a new religion or philosophy called monism from evolutionary science. SMART Grant Update - The Panda's Thumb
  • The toxin called amygdalin that is found in almond tree nectar is in fact an evolutionary development intended to give that tree an advantage over others in its surroundings THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
  • During the American Revolutionary War it was not uncommon for spectators to watch some of the major battles.
  • This analysis is a first step in reconstructing the details of possible evolutionary relationships among primitive cladid crinoids.
  • In short, it can encourage faith in the professional negotiator rather than the revolutionary agitator.
  • Orwell argued that in a time of universal deceit the only revolutionary act is to tell the truth.
  • And then of course, he also has a Ph. D in veterinary medicine, his undergraduate work focused on evolutionary biology-he's an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver. December 2006
  • The origin of vertebrates has always been a core question in evolutionary biology. It is well accepted that vertebrates and invertebrate chordate derived from a common ancestor.
  • It is famously understood that Darwin used a tree diagram to represent evolutionary relationships.
  • In Nizan's theory of the revolutionary novel it is elevated to the status of necessary pre-condition of authentic writing practices.
  • As a youth he had no intention of pursuing a military career, but he was drafted into the revolutionary army in 1793.
  • One of the primary indications that the RNA signatures are, in fact, remnants of an evolutionary saltation is their discrete character. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • Later, after the move to London, the revolutionary changes in publishing technology, there was no longer any such cause.
  • This last revolutionary had cheated the State by committing suicide while awaiting execution, but was not allowed to cheat the guillotine.
  • The term communism was associated with the revolutionary transformation of the means of production and other private property into property of the society, subsuming therefore the very concept of property - such was the character of what can be considered to be the first modern communist movement, the Political Affairs Magazine
  • For David, revolutionary politics was just one part of a rich and full life.
  • Sounds awful touchy-feely, but sometimes the most revolutionary ideas are touchy-feely.
  • Blue says: doggielore: The evolutionary isolationism for a pug is stricter than that of the human races .... The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
  • This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than the notorious Zinoviev letter, - of a revolutionary plot directed from Moscow to prepare the way for the black republic. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18
  • As taxonomic study proceeds on the assumption that evolution has taken place, it is much involved with phylogenetics, which deals with the description of evolutionary relationships.
  • It speculated on the evolutionary origins of such thermogenesis and observed how it predominates in ancient lineages of flowering plants like magnolias and water lilies.
  • You might not think that an American revolutionary war hero and a legendary music producer would have much in common, but both Paul Revere and Quincy Jones understood the value of social networks.
  • In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell 
  • During the Oligocene, the South American rodents began their great evolutionary radiation.
  • Within this framework, Barnave's revolutionary political ideas will be explicated.
  • Long time periods do not help the evolutionary theory if biochemicals are destroyed faster than they are formed.
  • But this ideology, though revolutionary in content, in fact sustained capitalist relations of production in general and big business in particular.
  • The process would also take place in the context of three "phases" of revolutionary war. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
  • The differences between what happened at Fort William Henry and at Niagara need not be seen as evolutionary; the aftermath of battle had yielded many scalps and prisoners for the Iroquois at Niagara.
  • I repeat my conviction that sexual reproduction, Mendelian (allelic) genetics, natural selection, all these, are anti-evolutionary processes serving only to stabilize the species for as long as possible exactly as Leo Berg insisted 87 years ago. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Money clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tiktaalik is transitional in the evolutionary shift from the pharyngeal and opercular pumps employed by fish to the buccal and costal pumping mechanisms of tetrapods. Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb
  • They add that these evolutionary fixes do not ward off an array of problems that arise from our biped stance.
  • Several rival revolutionary armies were challenging the central government and each other.
  • The revolutionary movement was crushed by the forces of reaction .
  • Yes, but that doesn't salvage your suggestion that a posited evolutionary pathway is a notion that works best when one doesn't think about it too closely. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • By focusing on the superficial, they missed what is truly revolutionary about the game.
  • On all sides, opportunities for growth are opening up for the revolutionary movement.
  • The pope figured in any number of revolutionary caricatures. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
  • From their arrival in England the ‘Elgin Marbles’ had a revolutionary impact on European taste, and the Parthenon sculptures are still considered to mark the apogee of Greek art.
  • Of 32 revolutionary leaders, 23 were described as egotistical, narcissistic, and searching for personal fame and glory Rejai, 1980. The Bass Handbook of Leadership
  • Scientists like Shubin, Gao, and Carroll say they are attracted to the study of salamanders because the amphibians give them a window to see how evolutionary mechanisms work.
  • During the weeks of terror that followed, two of the revolutionary leaders, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, went into hiding in Berlin.
  • Those who govern the existing system, no matter how left-wing and revolutionary their political ideologies, are social conservatives.
  • The choices they made also illustrate the divisions within the clergy and the gap between Loyalist clergy and revolutionary laity.
  • In most product- and process-improvement efforts, technological change is evolutionary, and the pace of development can be forecast, as shown by the lightwave systems example in Figure 3-6. Profiting From Innovation
  • Iran has Revolutionary Guards stationed in Lebanon and it, effectively, holds sway over extremistShiite Moslem terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah, the Party of God.
  • Before it was the home of the famous emancipationist, newspaper publisher, Minister to Russia, friend to Abraham Lincoln, founder of the Republican Party — it was the home of a Revolutionary War hero, and the home of many slaves. Driving directions
  • He might be a Father to Confederation, but like all Reformers, he was intent on destroying the offspring, was a hot-headed revolutionary, a brawler and corruptionist.
  • In choosing a partner we are subconsciously assessing their evolutionary fitness to be a mother of children or father provider and protector.
  • Hard to resist though, when these people, whose brains scream maladaptation with every word they write, know, in fact, nothing of the evolutionary theories they are rejecting. David Horton: Chimp business
  • Most leaders of evolutionary thought were strongly atheistic.
  • Don't let it end like this . Tell them I said something. Pancho villa, Mexican revolutionary
  • The young radical humanist became a revolutionary socialist.
  • However, among the classes of phylum Porifera, it is difficult to distinguish evolutionary relationships.
  • According to legends, traitors were hanged at this location during the American Revolutionary War and that the Marquis de Lafayette witnessed the festive hanging of 20 highwaymen from the elm in 1824.
  • It is also, rather vaguely, thought of as a revolutionary activity.
  • Remote attestation is the most significant and the most revolutionary of the four major feature groups described by Microsoft. Boing Boing: September 28, 2003 - October 4, 2003 Archives
  • A J Lubin does suggest that his experiences in the Borinage fostered a revolutionary spirit in him.
  • They are alienated, in the Marxist sense, from the product of their labours and this cannot be changed without revolutionary upheaval and the overthrow of capitalism.
  • As it appears that children are now completely unable to walk to school, can we expect an evolutionary change in mankind so that we all resemble daleks!
  • It is gratifying to learn that you were a revolutionary in your youth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Possessed by morbid drives that defy easy psychological analysis, they pursued a revolutionary domestic policy, not because they had any faith in its merits but in order to be revenged on their enemies and consolidate their power.
  • The two tried to join forces, with Chiang as the head of the National Revolutionary Army, but dissension led to a civil war.
  • The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • The Islamic Republic of Iran is a true revolutionary power. Its central theme has been its relentless attacks, in words and deeds, on the international system.
  • Most globulars these evolutionary differences are fairly minor, and suggest that star formation was not all at once but over a short period – possibly with intermittent burst of star formation depending on the gas collapse of the nebulosity that forms the stars in the globular. Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today
  • Here we take a look through the microscope to see if they have progressed any further up the evolutionary tree. The Sun
  • Others roared over the sands in newly-designed Land Rovers, on revolutionary dune buggies and motor bikes.
  • The new Turkish Republic was created by the General Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (19 May 1881 - 10 November 1938), who was an army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President. Turkey in the Middle of the Enemies
  • Furthermore, there was no pattern of younger to older in the carbon-dates that correlated with the evolutionary/uniformitarian 'ages'.
  • So having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary disadvantage, unless it results in extinction, then it is. angryoldfatman: For social insects to have evolved, at some point having sterile offspring had to be advantageous for the organism in question. At What Level did this Evolve?
  • A high-pitched voice is a serious evolutionary drawback. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and self-deception.
  • The third reason is to encourage a focus on aspects of evolution sometimes obscured by controversial issues, such as sociobiology and evolutionary psychology.
  • They started painting outdoors, which itself was considered to be quite revolutionary.
  • Initial attempts to find revolutionary grandmothers were at first met with grumpy rejection. Times, Sunday Times
  • The junk itself is a collection of fossils from our evolutionary history, which makes it interesting in the same way that a midden is interesting to archeologists.
  • Their training, he said, ‘renders them very hostile to the revolutionary spirit and the unreflecting passions of the multitude.’
  • It represents an experimental revolutionary hotel sleep environment we are creating in cooperation with the National Sleep Foundation.
  • Basset hounds were known in the United States since Revolutionary times.
  • That revolutionary dawn proved less than auspicious after many Frenchmen died under the blade of the guillotine.
  • It is not only biology, but cosmology, physics and astronomy that presuppose a general evolutionary account of the cosmos.
  • The most resistant snakes are also a little slower than the less resistant reptiles, which puts them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were about 40 of them who had been jailed for counter-revolutionary charges.
  • And finally, despite my previous acceptance of evolutionary theory as ‘fact,’ I came to the realization that intelligent design, as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism … Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’
  • Almost all practicing astronomers and astrophysicists believe in the big bang, a billions-of-years-old universe and other evolutionary ideas.
  • However, it would be inadvisable for revolutionary socialists to base themselves on this unlikely variant.
  • As a consequence, the complex shows discordant evolutionary patterns at different levels of organization.
  • However, keep in mind that these are not clear evolutionary groups and probably represent a grade of organisms out of which the fern lineage emerged.
  • Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers.
  • How do people feel about the possibility that an alternative evolutionary theory e.g. neo-Lamarckism might prove superior to neo-Darwinism? American Public Radio show: Understanding Charles Darwin - The Panda's Thumb
  • These characteristics of B. bahloi are expected to be found in the ancestor of B. attenuatus, since they represent a more primitive evolutionary stage.
  • The word intelligentsia was coined to describe the class of revolutionary thinkers who are at the center of Part II, Shipwreck. The Heart of the Matter: Wilson Versus the Rest
  • That appointment was revolutionary, for never in its more than one hundred years in St Lucia had a native son held the top job.
  • The reforms that started in 1991, are bringing in more and more revolutionary changes.
  • Helping the colony reproduce is a greater evolutionary success. At What Level did this Evolve?
  • Dr. Nilsson was not a [[Creation Science | creation scientist]] but was a founder of an evolutionary hypothesis called [[emication]] which is described by a review in the Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Some scientists have rejected evolutionary theory.
  • There were centres of counter-revolutionary organizations all over the country.
  • Using the revolutionary process of plastination, the body specimens are preserved with special plastics that enable us to view the many organs and systems under our skin.
  • Remember that the revolutionary movement in Eastern Europe, no less than in the American and British navies, is an integral part of the Allied blockade of the Central Empires. Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
  • Indeed, citation, in Benjamin's theses, is the very model for revolutionary action, following the lead of the spectacular opening pages of Marx's The Eighteenth History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
  • This is, historically speaking, simply an error: Marxism is specifically a form of revolutionary socialism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Political Ignorance and Perceptions of “Capitalism” and “Socialism”
  • This revolutionary change has, not surprisingly, been opposed by many elements that are recalcitrant, those who remain obedient to dogma, to tradition and the heavy legacy of past conditioning. The Continuing Controversy on Abortion
  • Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
  • But in France the revolutionary spirit was still strong and the common people had gained a sense of their power and their worth.
  • The basic idea behind cladistics is that members of a group share a common evolutionary history, and are "closely related," more so to members of the same group than to other organisms. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
  • It can be said that either the universe is vastly older than what was originally predicted by the evolutionary timescale, which is probably the path most of science will follow as naturalistic evolution is supported by the majority of scientists. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • The banishing of heterogenesis from microbiology and the resultant recognition that micro-organisms, like all the more visible forms of life, are reproduced only by their own kind, made possible the establishment of bacteri - ology as a precise science and its revolutionary appli - cations in immunology and in the treatment of infec - tious diseases. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
  • the Revolutionary era
  • Answer (D) is incorrect because audit program tend to be evolutionary. An auditor rarely anticipates every circumstance or condition that will be encountered during the audit.
  • One more piece of evidence that the crisis we face is three-fold-economic political and environmental-and that revolutionary solutions are needed, most ricky-tick. Kasama
  • We are not typal creations but evolutionary entities associating ourselves in this multiplicity of creation. Archive 2009-07-01
  • On that front, molecular evolutionary biologist Aaron Avivi of the University of Haifa in Israel and his colleagues have focused on the Spalax genus of mole rat, which he describes as a "hairy sausage whose ends are hard to tell apart. Researchers try to understand naked mole rats' resistance to cancer
  • No leader in this country ever existed but he was a revolutionary.
  • The revolutionary committee building had been torched. Times, Sunday Times
  • My class on the Revolutionary just studied Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
  • A high-pitched voice is a serious evolutionary drawback. Times, Sunday Times
  • Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. AS SEEN ON TV: LORD BYRON
  • In pursuing our overall goal of a better characterization of the evolutionary dynamics at the molecular level, we had several objectives.
  • Another minor point here is the lazy use of the term Orwellian in Anthony's piece, to describe the revolutionary fraternity associated with the term 'Brother.' Cambodia: Details are Sketchy
  • In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • This revolutionary aircraft will provide the best protection for our soldiers, sailors and airmen for 35 years. The Sun
  • Tribal consciousness is _revolutionary _consciousness: mutable and fluid and transforming. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • In case they did not the papers would doubtless be destroyed -- and the charges would continue to be made -- the charges that the subtreasury in New York had shipped the gold to aid the revolutionary junta in making a republic of China. Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor
  • Out of the shadows Revolutionary War brought a shift in thought about women.
  • This claim to glory, doubtless exaggerated in stereotypical Gascon fashion, caricatures, indeed cleverly reverses the terms of Soyer's own, far less swashbuckling role in the July Days — Mirobolant would have slain elite troops while standing his ground in the street, whereas Soyer was nearly lynched by a revolutionary mob while fleeing from a palace kitchen. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
  • In this, Lenin was more Marxist than Marx, who had observed the revolutionary potential of the Russian peasant commune in the 1870s.
  • Research found naringenin, which is described as a flavonoid found in citrus fruit, has a revolutionary effect on the liver making it burn fat instead of storing it after a meal. Impact Lab
  • These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder.
  • For perspective on the scale of evolutionary difference between genera, consider that modern humans and Neanderthals are different species within the same genus (Homo), while chimpanzees are our living relatives from a closely related genus (Pan), but that we share the same taxonomic family (Hominidae) with our chimp cousins. Archive 2007-04-01
  • Perhaps not NDS specifically, but "modern evolutionary theory," "standard model of evolution" and whatever else you want to call it has always assumed evolution proceeds by incremental small changes in phenotype by virtue of the relative success of certain minor variations. Approaching Difference, Not Likeness

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