organic evolution


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(biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

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A Moon Shaped Pool is an impressive, organic evolution of the group's trademark sound, so fittingly, it's the closer, True Love Waits, a lost track the band have had on the back burner for more than 20 years that will stick in your memory.
Indeed, they were charted by a pencil and ruler, not organic evolution of geography based on multiple factors and a protracted history of conflict or concord.
While Behr-Sigel's own recycling of her arguments occasions some repetition, W.'s approach allows her to show the organic evolution of Behr-Sigel's thought as she moved away from Evdokimov's attribution of ontological significance to gender differences and the necessity of a male priesthood, to a critique of his theological anthropology and trinitarian theology (1980s).
Given the area's organic evolution as market- cumresidential and chaotic development, public transport systems were preferred over private means.
The new NeoPigment Pure formulation is designed as an organic evolution of the company's existing NeoPigment process and offers increased vivacity, improved hand feel and a more opaque and smooth reproduction of white.
It has been an organic evolution for Downey, who starred as the angel Monica on CBS' hit drama Touched by an Angel from 1994 to 2003, "I've spent the last 20 years of my life telling dramatic stories on television, so it's been great," says Downey, who during her Angel run also produced seven CBS movies of the week, "back when that was still a living, breathing entity.
This semester, he's taking three science courses--neurobiology, organic evolution, biochemistry and an organic chemistry lab--and working on his honors thesis.
"The real challenge continues to be the size of the sector which, despite a respectable organic evolution, will not contribute in any great way to the country's economy.
Wilson: "If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations" (n.p.).
Chapter 3, written by Michael Ruse, asks how well Darwin defended the fact of organic evolution (i.e., common descent and gradual mutability of phenotypes) rather than the mechanism of organic evolution he proposed in the Origin (natural selection).
As uncertain a world as digital programming is, moving into the space is an organic evolution for Seacrest, who is among the most proficient celebs in terms of translating his personal brand to the Web and to social media.
David Attenborough "As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world, which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all." Tonight: Attenborough's Ark: Natural World Special, BBC Two, 9pm.
Not only are inorganic and organic evolution being considered, but also the evolution of language, of literature, of society, of government, of religion.
McCalman also shows convincingly that within a decade of the publication of Origin of Species the general concept of organic evolution was widely accepted among knowledgeable scientists and among the educated public.
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