evolutionary
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This means they represent a unique branch of a species’ evolutionary history and need specific protection so that they can continue to adapt to future change.
From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026
The change has been evolutionary, not revolutionary, as agencies revise and defend their rules more carefully, rather than watch them swept away.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
From an evolutionary perspective "stress is what keeps us alive" by activating our flight-or-fight response.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
This allows them to live significantly longer than closely related species from which they diverged relatively recently in evolutionary time.
From Science Daily • Jun. 22, 2026
Such societies might live to a prosperous old age, their lifetimes measured perhaps on geological or stellar evolutionary time scales.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing evolutionary
Evolutionary BIology - Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity - Middle School
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Evolutionary BIology - Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity - High School
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