Sentence examples for adaptive to shift from inspiring English sources

It is adaptive to shift preferences depending on one's own mate value and opportunities (Penke & Denissen, 2008), and adjust the preferences to one's own attractiveness.

This is further evidence consistent with control theory and AIT hypotheses that it may be adaptive to shift to a concrete level of identification when faced with difficulties or stress, and suggests that the tendency to become more concrete to negative outcomes may be functional.

These include the interactions between phenotypic plasticity and genetic evolution, the role of genetic architecture for the adaptive potential, adaptation to shifting spatial gradients and the influence of interspecific interactions on rates of adaptation.

It has an adaptive program designed to shift according to different driver needs (holding lower gears longer during passing and highway merging, for example), and this clearly works, but it's simply not as impressive as the transmission in Honda's Civic.

Initially identified as a factor induced by PPARα in the liver in response to fasting, FGF21 is now recognised as a key player in the adaptive starvation response, helping to shift hepatic metabolism from carbohydrates to fatty acids and ketone bodies [ 67, 68].

This is an adaptive plant response to shifting temperatures, because for many species the flowering date is unaffected by climate change (Fitter and Fitter, 2002), and plants that couple their phenology to temperature are more likely to have populations resilient to climate change (Willis et al., 2008).

The results point to the need for institutions such as the ILO to be nimble and adaptive to events and to a shifting global, political and economic context, in order to influence policy agendas that promote workers' well-being.

That is, the migratory locust populations in different refugial areas during glaciations periods could have undergone allopatric (or parapatric) divergence with adaptive evolution, and shifted to different adaptive landscapes.

Many highly significant blood biomarkers relate to immune system features, indicating a shift from adaptive to innate processes, whereas most role-switching biomarkers relate to blood serum features and whole-body phenotypes.

With the AIAI scenario, the adaptive challenges are shifted to the native range where populations are less likely to have passed through bottlenecks, and variation in traits under selection is less likely to be limiting.

With the AIAI scenario, the adaptive challenges are shifted to the native range where populations are less likely to have passed through bottlenecks, and variation in traits under selection is less likely to limit the rate and magnitude of adaptive evolution.