evolutionary

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The show featured a long-term research site in the Kalahari Desert run by Tim Clutton-Brock, an evolutionary biologist retired from the University of Cambridge.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

AI is revolutionary, but as Mr. Tyrangiel stresses, its implementation tends to be evolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

She said that she had a marine biology assignment due Friday and a midterm Monday in an evolutionary medicine course, and that she had not saved the readings offline, making for “a stressful morning.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Since the behavioral data did not always align perfectly with the species in that phylogeny, the researchers simplified the evolutionary tree to 44 genera, along with five families and one superfamily.

From Science Daily • May 2, 2026

But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don’t fulfill the other part of the definition: they don’t consciously grow plants.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond