Sentence examples for an evolutionary war from inspiring English sources

This Gallic conceptual breakthrough was first exploited in fiction by J.H. Rosny Aîné, whose short story Les Xipéhuz (1887) describes an evolutionary war of extermination between prehistoric humans and a menacing crystal-based life-form.

Reality: Slowness is the ultimate weapon in an evolutionary war against eagle-eyed, fleet-footed predators.

Pretty soon, this became an evolutionary war, with the search engines working to keep their rankings as fair (or at least as optimized for them) as possible, while SEO involved trying to trick the search engines into better pushing a given listing upward by a few slots.

Well, despite Emma's Christian faith, she stood by him through all the evolutionary wars, and did for him the one thing only a loyal spouse can do - pretend he wasn't in when German journalists came calling.

Dr. Crespi and Dr. Badcock propose that an evolutionary tug of war between genes from the father's sperm and the mother's egg can, in effect, tip brain development in one of two ways.

The new theory posits that an "evolutionary tug of war between genes from the father's sperm and the mother's egg can, in effect, tip brain development in one of two ways".

This reductional division can potentially generate an evolutionary tug-of-war because only one homologue pair is retained in the oocyte, while the other is lost into the polar body and subsequently degenerates.

That's because mothers and babies are engaged in an "evolutionary tug-of-war", says Elizabeth Rowe of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

In this review, we focus on the classic scenario of sexual antagonism, in which opposing directional selection acts on a trait to create an evolutionary tug-of-war for shared alleles between the sexes.

Furthermore, the presence of male-harming mtDNA mutations could exert selection for modifiers on the Y-chromosome, thus placing these mito-sensitive nuclear genes at the center of an evolutionary tug-of-war between mitochondrion and Y-chromosome.

Now that evolution has grown into a sophisticated science, it would be nice to think that discussions of war from an evolutionary perspective have kept pace.