Sentence examples for be favored by evolution from inspiring English sources
"Male homosexuality is evolutionarily maladaptive," he said, noting that the phrase means only that genes favoring homosexuality cannot be favored by evolution if fewer such genes reach the next generation.
The two senior authors of the study, Dr. Carole Ober and Dr. Martha K. McClintock, believe the gene matching system may be favored by evolution because it helps avert the risks of both inbreeding and outbreeding.
But biologists have come to understand how cooperative behavior, under certain definable conditions, can have a greater genetic payoff and therefore how genes that foster such behavior could be favored by evolution.
A genetic variant that increases the risk of testicular cancer may be favored by evolution because it helps protect those with fair skin from the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays, according to a new study.
Thus the advantageous fitness effects of improved binding at some, shared targets must outweigh any deleterious effects of misregulation at other, non-shared targets in order for cooperative binding to be favored by evolution.
When mutations occur, the members of the population at highly connected nodes have a better chance of surviving, causing them to be favored by evolution and increasing the average mutational robustness [ 11, 17- 20].
Dr. Dunbar thinks laughter may have been favored by evolution because it helped bring human groups together, the way other activities like dancing and singing do.
Likely, the biological relevant role of ER was favored by evolution as a mean of integration between reproductive and metabolic functions.
Dr. Grafman said that religious cohesion for a common purpose, and the ability to infer what others are thinking, would each have been favored by evolution, along with the theory of mind networks that serves both systems.
The degree to which cold-friendly versions of these three genes were favored by evolution differed in the various Siberian groups.
Cardona used several techniques that detect signs of natural selection in the human genome that is, genes that have been favored by evolution because they helped humans to survive and reproduce.
