Example sentences of "as [art] generations " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to follow from Darwin 's ideas that as the generations pass , so the organisms in a particular line of descent ( lineage ) must become better and better adapted to the prevailing conditions . |
| 2 | The anthropologists saw the rural smallholder as the bearer of tradition and wedded to the same way of life as the generations before him . |
| 3 | But as the generations ran their course , each one interbreeding with the local village dogs , the successive progeny became smaller and relentlessly unimpressive . |
| 4 | As the generations go by , under the assumption of blending inheritance , variation is bound to become swamped . |
| 5 | It manifestly is n't true that variation disappears as the generations go by . |
| 6 | The nonrandom survival and reproductive success of individuals within the species effectively ‘ writes ’ improved instructions for survival into the collective genetic memory of the species as the generations go by . |
| 7 | Evolutionary change in a species largely consists of changes in how many copies there are of each of the various possible contents at each addressed DNA location , as the generations pass . |
| 8 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 9 | Therefore , in the population , this form of the gene will become more numerous as the generations go by . |
| 10 | We have seen that a very important part of a gene 's environment is the other genes that it is likely to meet in successive bodies as the generations go by . |
| 11 | Gazelles , no less than cheetahs , are subject to cumulative selection , and they too will tend , as the generations go by , to improve their ability to run fast , to react swiftly , to become invisible by blending into the long grass . |
| 12 | In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles . |
| 13 | There has been an arms race in which forest trees became larger as the generations went by . |
| 14 | This means that , as the generations go by , the total amount of genetic difference from the original ancestor can become very large , cumulatively , one small step at a time . |