Sentence examples for an adaptive trait from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, it is conceivable that low disorder is not an adaptive trait in thermal adaptation, only a side effect resulting from neutral drift or adaptation to other selective pressures [40], or from evolutionary descent from mesophiles with low disorder.

The scientists suggest that the evolution of the Neanderthal lineage is tied to an adaptive trait associated with chewing.

This is what social scientists mean when they say that human overconfidence can be an adaptive trait.

Instead, goodness might actually be an adaptive trait, allowing more coöperative groups to outcompete their conniving cousins.

— and by Dutton's infectious and wide-ranging love of art, a passion that clearly goes beyond anything that could be considered an adaptive trait.

And the results of this experiment suggest that the ability to respond to even such unconvincing stimuli is an adaptive trait for urban survival.

But the book is ultimately animated less by its grand thesis than by all the questions tossed up along the way why did no art form develop to exploit smell, as music does hearing?—and by Dutton's infectious and wide-ranging love of art, a passion that clearly goes beyond anything that could be considered an adaptive trait.

If regeneration is an adaptive trait, it would be expected to occur more commonly among organisms that appear to have the greatest need of such a capability, either because the hazard of injury is great or the benefit to be gained is great.

And the animal "had to" develop an adaptive trait if it is to survive.

Alternatively, cranial kinesis may be considered a consequence of the general design of the skull, rather than an adaptive trait as such.

There were no density effects on frog condition index, suggesting that the growth rate modifications may actually be an adaptive trait of R. arvalis.