Sentences with phrase «because over evolutionary time»

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We observe that at the lowest level of the evolutionary process, time is contingent in the sense that electronic and atomic radiations are short - lived, measured in millionths of a second; the movement is chaotic, diffused, haphazard, indeterminate as shown in the cloud chamber or the Brownian movement of molecules; the time is transient because entropy takes over; the movements are lost instead of being collected in the thing and perfective of the thing.

For these spiders, passivity represents an «evolutionary dead end» because it comes with quick payoffs but dooms the lineage over time, Pruitt says.