Sentences with phrase «independent course of evolution»
It was pretty groundbreaking stuff at the time, because rather than the prevailing, societally accepted view, which believed that man was at the apex of all things, Darwin put forth this idea that each species followed its own independent course of evolution, but with repeating structures and patterns, common solutions to biological problems appearing again and again.
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Washington State University researchers say environmental factors are having an underappreciated effect on the course of disease and evolution by prompting genetic mutations through epigenetics, a process by which genes are turned on and off independent of an organism's DNA sequence.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers say environmental factors are having an underappreciated effect on the course of disease and evolution by prompting genetic mutations through epigenetics, a process by which genes are turned on and off independent of an organism's DNA sequence.
When fellow students who had been on courses at Newcastle — where Tom Hudson, Harry Thubron, Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton were among their mentors — began to explain the evolution of Mondrian's work to me, the metamorphosis of his drawings of trees, for instance, towards making an autonomous painting, or Matisse working directly from the nude model but ending with an independent image — then it seemed an exciting possibility, to make a painting that was independent of local colour or illustrative form.