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Theoretical analyses show that detours that increase flight distance by up to 20% will often be adaptive on aerodynamic grounds - a bird that loads itself with food to cross a long barrier flies less efficiently.

PIP aggression may be adaptive on Wall Street and in other extremely competitive settings.

We first tested whether earlier flowering is adaptive on serpentine in generation one and then looked for TGP response in generation two with earlier flowering in progeny from serpentine-grown maternal plants.

He insists that storytelling is adaptive, on strictly Darwinian terms, but surely this would only have meaning if he could show that there were human-like groups who failed to compete because they didn't trade tales — or even that tribes who told lots of stories did better than tribes that didn't.

The findings of these earlier studies also suggested that convergent substitutions were adaptive on the basis of associations with positive selection as well as with hearing sensitivity in echolocating taxa.

It apparently inhabits high elevations, and the moss-like colors of its dorsum may be adaptive for camouflage on moss-covered tree bark.

These devices are anchored to the sea floor and record ambient sound either continuously or with an on-off sampling schedule (which may be adaptive, depending on what was detected previously).

It is adaptive to rely on instinctive, automatic reflexes that keep humans out of harm's way.

It is adaptive, based on the change of the best group value.

The cohort expansion used in dose-finding is adaptive, based on the interim comparisons between each dose and placebo.

Both parameters are adaptive, depending on both H and L n, with dynamics that jointly establish a boundary on the prior and thus limit subsequent belief strength.