Sentences with phrase «descent with modification»
Scientists no longer question whether descent with modification occurred because the evidence is so strong.
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In evolution, organisms are linked together by a pattern of descent with modification as they evolve.
Sometimes the word indicates simply descent with modification, leaving open the question of how the staggering changes in life forms could possibly have occurred.
Scientists no longer question whether descent with modification occurred because the evidence supporting the idea is so strong.»
Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small - scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger - scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.
Both are far more complex aircraft... though far more efficient... (kinda like descent with modifications... oh my!)
Evolution is descent with modification.
Rather, it's descent from a common ancestor (the scientific phrase in use currently is «descent with modification» meaning they share similar underlying foundation, but when they migrate (those that survive) they evolve based on environmental triggers (challenges), which give rise to mutations; that make future generations better suited to live in the new environment.
Provided that that unfortunately loose term evolution means strictly «descent with modification,» it hardly seems possible to deny it without denying the findings of genetics.
The theory, also known as «descent with modification,» posits that new species have evolved following many minor changes from parents to offspring over billions of years.
But sometimes consensus just means that there is a consensus of skeptics (e.g., Wegener's theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 based on continent shapes but was not widely accepted until 50 years later because the smoking gun — deep sea rifts — hadn't been discovered) or there is consensus because the data is overwhelming (e.g., descent with modification).