He had another, totally unexpected visit that same seven-day which turned out to have almost as fortuitous a result.

Selection made our brains large for other reasons, while reading and writing arose later as a fortuitous or unintended result of an enlarged mental power directly evolved for different functions.

The remaining phonetic similarities between the Luzerner and Appenzeller phoneme sets were fortuitous results of multiple mergers and splits that each dialect underwent separately.

It was a secret town in the Soviet Union until President Boris Yeltsin decreed in 1992 that such places could use their historical names, a fortuitous result considering the ISH had only arrived three years prior.

The scientists' work confirmed their initial suspicions: that the undoubted improvement in parachuting ability was a fortuitous result of the development of the fringes for these other purposes.

Loss of control can also yield fortuitous results, however, by allowing video artists to experiment with one another's work in much the same way that musicians sample and remix one another's songs.

It would be tempting to suspect that this positioning was just a fortuitous result of buoyancy, but some researchers tested that by placing a heat source to one side of some eggs.

However, for all of Sancho's diplomatic and military skill, one cannot help but think that such a situation was essentially the fortuitous result of having youthful opponents.

Or simply a fortuitous result of the "survival of the fittest" in a completely circular and tautological definition?

It allows us to understand the need for sacrificial victims, which in turn explains the hunt which is primitively ritual, and the domestication of animals as a fortuitous result of the acclimatization of a reserve of victims, or agriculture.