EVOLUTIONARILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evolutionarily mean? 

• EVOLUTIONARILY (adverb)
  The adverb EVOLUTIONARILY has 1 sense:

1. in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view

  Familiarity information: EVOLUTIONARILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVOLUTIONARILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view

Context example:

the mutation has been evolutionarily successful

Pertainym:

evolutionary (of or relating to or produced by evolution)

 Context examples 

The models enable us to see the wide ranges of conditions that can cause displays to become stuck in the population, evolutionarily, said Maria R. Servedio, an NSF-funded UNC professor and study author.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

They are evolutionarily conserved secreted proteins that participate in the Notch signaling pathway in determining boundaries during segmentation and cell fates during neurogenesis.

(Manic Fringe, NCI Thesaurus)

Encoded by widely expressed human BCL7A Gene, 231-aa 25-kD serine-rich BCL7A Protein has 90% sequence identity (N-terminal 51-aa) with BCL7B and BCL7C; possible members of an evolutionarily conserved family.

(BCL7A Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The Notch signaling pathway is an evolutionarily conserved, intercellular signaling mechanism essential for proper embryonic development in all metazoan organisms in the Animal kingdom.

(Notch Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A component of an evolutionarily conserved intercellular signaling mechanism, NOTCH4 is expressed in a variety of tissues and appears to regulate cell fate decisions during embryonic vascular morphogenesis and remodeling.

(Notch4 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

To their surprise, immune cells recognized S. epidermidis using evolutionarily ancient molecules called non-classical MHC molecules, which led to the production of unusual T cells (link is external) with genes associated with tissue healing and antimicrobial defense.

(Scientists find microbes on the skin of mice promote tissue healing, immunity, National Institutes of Health)

Our research has uncovered a common set of pathogen-responsive genes shared in early-divergent land plants and more evolutionarily young flowering plants, which are all likely to have been critical for the expansion of plants onto land.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Modern society often places abnormal pressure on the human body — from shifting time schedules due to air travel, to work cycles that don't conform to natural light, to odd eating times — and these external conditions create an imbalance in the body's natural cycles, which are evolutionarily synchronized to day and night.

(Neurons That Control Brain's Body Clock Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)