Some are advantageous to humans: the gut bacteria of many Japanese people, for instance, share genes that allow them to digest seaweed, a staple of the Japanese diet.
As a result, hybrid genes have the ability to be either harmful or advantageous to humans [ 9, 10].
Domestication has been practiced for millennia on numerous species for traits advantageous to humans (Diamond 2002; Mignon-Grasteau et al. 2005; Taberlet et al. 2008).
It is defined as artificial selection, over many generations, for traits deemed advantageous to humans in animal and plant species (Diamond 2002; Mignon-Grasteau et al. 2005; Taberlet et al. 2008).
He writes, for example, that it would be "arrogant peremptorily to deny that the way a church is organized may perhaps also be a special divine dispensation" (6:105) and acknowledges that revelation "at a given time and a given place might be wise and very advantageous to the human race" (6:155).
That geologic upheaval in an area known as the cradle of humankind is believed to be responsible for the gradual conversion of dense, humid forests into more sparsely treed grasslands that made upright locomotion on two feet advantageous to evolving human ancestors.
Therefore, it is advantageous to predict human WNV risks for cost-effective controls of the disease and optimal allocations of limited resources.
Interbreeding could have been genetically advantageous to the incoming humans, says Bruce Lahn, a geneticist at the University of Chicago, because the Neanderthals were well adapted to the cold European climate — the last ice age had another 35,000 years to run — and to local diseases.
It is advantageous to investigate the secretome of human adipose tissue because there are bound to be differences between the rodent and human secretome [ 8].
With such attentiveness and knowledge, humans become able to make choices and to engage in the regulation of behaviors that are advantageous rather than detrimental to human and environmental health.
