I wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway.

我想弄清进化的一种定途径。

Rob's previous research has investigated the palaeobiology of "missing links" and evolutionary relationships of early vertebrates.

罗布早期的研究调查了“缺失环节古生态学”和早期脊椎动物的进化关系。

The resemblance of families such as the Verbenaceae and Labiate is the result of evolutionary convergence .

科的相似性，如马鞭草科与唇形科的相似性，是进化上的趋同造成的。

The evolutionary step that freed these animals from the water was the development of the amniote egg.

使这些动物得以脱离水生活的进化步骤是羊膜卵得改进。

(2) The pantoporate pollen of P. merrilliana shows that the species has vital taxonomical and evolutionary significance in Primula.

(2) 安徽羽叶报春的散孔型花粉显示其在报春花属中有重要的系和进化。

Chris has talked about pandas being an evolutionary cul-de-sac, and it's certainly unusual for a carnivore to take up herbivory.

克里曾经说熊猫是进化的尽头，一种食动物吃起了草，这当然不同寻常。

Later, the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel would convince Huxley that comparative anatomy and palaeontology could be used to reconstruct evolutionary genealogies.

后来，德国的形态学家•海克尔使赫胥黎相信，比较解剖学和古生物学可以用来重建进化族谱。

Wilson popularized the “biophilia” hypothesis: the idea that our evolutionary history has blessed us with an innate affinity for living things.

Wilson让“人类天生热爱大自然”的假说家喻户晓：即我们进化的历史用一种内在的对万物生灵的亲近感保佑着我们的想法。

The PSO algorithm is a new evolutionary computation method which is applicable to complex optimization problems that are nonlinear, nondifferentiable and multimodal.

微粒群算法是一种新兴的算法,它能有效地解决非线性、不可微、多峰的复杂优化问题。

Adds J.Albert Uy, an ornithologist at Syracuse University in New York, "The study should revive interest" in this more unusual evolutionary force.

这种交汇尽管很稀少并且存在争议，“我可能比大众的观念想的的更多一些”他说。

Her argument that the selfish-gene model is being superseded by other forms of evolutionary explanation relies on an overinterpretation of those alternatives.

根据她的说法，自私基因模型正在被其他进化理论所取代，但这一说法所指其他理论并不那么可靠。

Pere Alberch, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, is the modern spokesman for the importance of teratology in evolutionary biology.

哈佛比较动物学博物馆的皮埃·阿博彻，是为畸形学在进化生物学中的重要性而奔走呐喊的当代代言人。

In choosing a partner we are subconsciously assessing their evolutionary fitness to be a mother of children or father provider and protector.

在选择伴侣的时候，我们会在潜识里衡量对方将来是否会是称职的母亲或者父亲，是否会是合格的一家之主。

The branching points of the cladogram may be regarded either as an ancestral species (as in an evolutionary tree) or solely as representing shared characteristics.

在这个形象化的进化树上，每两个物种间的距离都是由它们共有的性来决定的。

The paper has summarized systematically evolutionary law in time and space on petrofacies and paleogeography of Late Paleozoic era in Northern China and distributive law of depositional systems.

根据华北晚古生代沉积岩系的环境标志,识别出29个相,归并为冲积扇、河流、三角洲、潮汐砂滩、碳酸盐台地等6个沉积体系。