Sentence examples for adaptive advantages from inspiring English sources

These genes belong to functional categories known to confer adaptive advantages, and their highly divergent evolution could be a consequence of local adaptation to the African or Asian environments, or of human selection following the independent domestication processes.

What are the adaptive advantages of internal fertilization?

What are the adaptive advantages of internal development?

What are the adaptive advantages of external fertilization?

What are the adaptive advantages of external development?

This structure, in its simplicity, has afforded the brain a wealth of adaptive advantages.

It is clear that large size in animal species has certain reproductive and adaptive advantages.

Regardless of its adaptive advantages, a particular coloration or pattern of coloration cannot evolve unless it is within the species' natural pool of genetic variability.

The dwindling snowpack is having a profound effect on ecosystems, disrupting the adaptive advantages of such northern species as lynx, wolverines, and snowshoe hares.

It might once have delivered adaptive advantages: swaying branches could indicate a stalking predator, and so you'd be saved if you fled, even if you believed the threat was a ghost.

Katherine Rourke Bonnem Bronxville, N.Y., Nov.17, 2009 • To the Editor: In his recent article about the evolutionary origins of religion, Nicholas Wade claimed that atheists would be reluctant to accept that religion might have conferred some adaptive advantages upon our ancestors.