Sentence examples for be favored by selection from inspiring English sources
Social behaviors that benefit individuals by concordantly increasing the likelihood that they will be favorably positioned in their group and the benefits they get from membership in their respective group will clearly be favored by selection.
However, some substitutions may not significantly affect the function of the protein, and are therefore selectively neutral, while others may improve enzyme function and be favored by selection.
In general, we find that fairly high rates of PCD can be favored by selection assuming low rates of stochastic phenotype switching (making population turnover from PCD more valuable) and high levels of genotypic assortment caused by spatial structure in the population (allowing the genotype undergoing PCD to capture most of the resources liberated by cellular suicide).
Hypotheses for the evolution of andromonoecy suggest that the production of intermediate proportions of staminate flowers may be favored by selection acting through female components of fitness.
Evolutionary theory predicts that behaviors that increase fitness by any mechanism should be favored by selection [32].
The associated pressures should then determine whether behaviors that lead to beneficial social organization will be favored by selection.
What kind of state-space structures are favored by selection?
But he and others note that it is not yet clear what mental or behavioral traits were favored by selection.
For each gene, one class of variants has arisen recently and has been spreading rapidly because it is favored by selection.
If mutations occur randomly (i.e. none is favored by selection), most sequence variants (haplotypes) will each appear in only a few individual plants.
