A flower can be considered a powerful evolutionary innovation, because its presence allowed the plant world to access new means and mechanisms for reproduction.

A larval stage was probably an evolutionary innovation driven by the increasing level of predation at the seafloor during the Ediacaran period.

If this is true, and given the time estimates here, the evolutionary innovation of oxygenic photosynthesis may have had a relatively rapid impact on the environment.

A spur is considered an evolutionary innovation because it defines pollinator specificity and attraction.

There are two notable exceptions, both recent evolutionary innovations.

Rather than merely losing attributes, parasites often develop evolutionary innovations.

His research interests focus on evolutionary innovation, evo-devo theory, and the extension of the Evolutionary Synthesis.

It used to be thought that the sticky orb web was an evolutionary innovation resulting in the diversification of the Orbiculariae.

It is an evolutionary innovation unique to the genus Argonauta.

Its newest evolutionary innovations hadn't replaced earlier sections.