How to Use evolutionary biology in a Sentence

evolutionary biology

noun

• This is the, kind of, the standard trope of evolutionary biology, right?
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
• Modern evolutionary biology, and a lot of data, shows that doesn’t have to be true.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2020
• And this is, like, one of the biggest knowledge gaps in evolutionary biology.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
• Part of the reason is that evolutionary biology very rarely offers us clean answers.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• In contrast, the top-down method looks at modern animals and tries to trace their evolutionary biology to life’s early days.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
• As told in textbooks and evolutionary biology classes, the earliest horses were small, dwelled in forests and had four toes on their front legs and three on their back legs.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
• There are schisms even within Wilson’s own field of evolutionary biology.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 25 June 2021
• Decades of research in evolutionary biology have led to two classic solutions to this problem.
  — Athena Aktipis, Slate Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
• People tend to think of evolutionary biology as a discipline focused on events that happened slowly and in the distant past.
  — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Nor is there one for ecology and studying the environment, or one for evolutionary biology.
  — Devang Mehta, Slate Magazine, 3 Oct. 2017
• The idea that the past is the key to the present underlies all sciences that deal with time, such as geology, evolutionary biology, and ecology.
  — Ellen Wohl august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
• Ross’s proof starts off relying on fossils in museums, books and articles on evolutionary biology, and so on.
  — Nikk Effingham, Vox, 28 Apr. 2018
• The book exposed him to game theory and evolutionary biology, setting him on a lifelong quest to solve the puzzles of human behavior.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• The book is laced with nuggets of evolutionary biology and examples of animals with the ability to disguise themselves.
  — Lucie Elven, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
• At its core, biophilic design is about the connection between humans and nature, which goes back to human evolutionary biology.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 14 June 2019
• In economics and evolutionary biology, where the idea of signalling grew up, a valid signal needs to be costly—otherwise it can be easily faked.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Those genomes will also offer insights into some of the most intriguing questions of evolutionary biology.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
• Interpretability, in her view, should take a cue from evolutionary biology.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 24 Sep. 2025
• Stepping into that role was sort of a natural fit for Bergstrom, whose background in evolutionary biology steeled him for contentious debates.
  — NBC News, 26 May 2020
• The note of uncertainty is welcome in a text marked by its confidence in cutting-edge evolutionary biology and social science.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• For some reason, every book in the self-improvement genre veers into evolutionary biology or what some study about dopamine and rats tells us about human accomplishment.
  — Kate Bachelder Odell, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2018
• Bret Weinstein, known for his work in evolutionary biology, extended that thought.
  — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• To explain the danger, Hinton reached back to evolutionary biology.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026
• But exactly which of these is truly the closest relative to the very first animals has remained one of the most contentious questions in evolutionary biology.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary biology has on daily life.
  — Vaughn Cooper, Quartz, 10 Sep. 2021
• Haag referred to the rule in evolutionary biology known as Dollo’s Law, which states that once a trait has been lost in evolution, it will not be regained the exact same way.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
• Now a new analysis, using techniques borrowed from evolutionary biology, has come down in favor of the latter, albeit with an important later role for the steppes.
  — Kurt Kleiner, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
• The history of linguistics and evolutionary biology have been braided together for as long as the latter has existed.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
• In my subfield of ecology and evolutionary biology, an average dissertation could yield three to six papers, sometimes more.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
• The method has potential far beyond evolutionary biology.
  — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026