| 单词 | evolutionary |
| 释义 | evolutionary (once / 3076 pages) adj Evolutionary things have to do with how animals (or other things) change over time — this process of change is called evolution. Scientists that study living things are interested in evolutionary changes in form or behavior. It's not always easy to put the evolutionary pieces together, and scientists often have to rely on fossils to tell the whole story of evolution. Usually, evolutionary changes happen because they help the organism survive and reproduce. Many evolutionary questions are non-physical: How did the domestication of dogs change the behavior of canines from an evolutionary standpoint? When you see the word evolutionary, think "change." WORD FAMILYevolutionary: evolutionarily+/evolution: evolutionary, evolutionism, evolutions, microevolution/evolutionism: evolutionist/evolutionist: evolutionists/evolve: evolution, evolved, evolves, evolving USAGE EXAMPLESThis finding — that people are reflexively prone to “intergroup bias” in punishment — is consistent with what many scientists believe about humans’ evolutionary heritage. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) If you look from an evolutionary perspective, you might see us a little more sympathetically. Slate(Dec 26, 2016) "Wow," adds Larry Stevens, an evolutionary ecologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Science Magazine(Dec 22, 2016) adj of or relating to or produced by evolution evolutionary biology |
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