Sentence examples for adaptive survival from inspiring English sources

The earliest marine turtles are thought to have shown up during the Jurassic period and survived the global extinction because they developed a wide array of adaptive survival techniques that "allow them to survive bad times," Walter Joyce of the University of Tubingen's Institute for Earth Sciences told Discovery News.

This is obviously an adaptive survival [characteristic].

In other words, we have evolved as selfish animals because our self-love is part of our adaptive survival toolkit.

The nature of the fire regime therefore may selectively regulate the variety of species affected depending on the intensity, which Pausus (2014) addressed indirectly in a study on adaptive survival strategies in other regions.

Worry is an adaptive survival function: we use our imaginations to anticipate potential dangers, then develop ways to avoid them.

The rapid subcortical route has adaptive survival value because it permits a reflexive response to occur prior to a more thorough conscious appraisal of the threat stimulus.

Growth in the presence of haemoglobin is associated with a response likely to be adaptive to survival within the bloodstream, which is supported by serum killing assays that indicate growth on haemoglobin significantly increases survival, and the response to lactoferrin is associated with increased expression of epithelial cell adhesins and oxidative stress response molecules.

The genes for these complex mental mechanisms, the argument goes, were passed on through the generations because they were adaptive, enhancing survival or reproductive success, and eventually, they spread widely and became standard equipment.

Fear learning in stressful situations is highly adaptive for survival by steering behavior in subsequent situations, but fear learning can become disproportionate in vulnerable individuals.

Musical emotions are unique from other emotions in that they are based on aesthetic stimuli, and unlike other basic emotions do not have an obvious adaptive or survival value [48].

This pathway can be adaptive, promoting survival or it can lead to induction of apoptosis [ 39].