Sentence examples for became adapted for different from inspiring English sources

Writing online today in Nature, the researchers propose that, after pennaceous feathers evolved, they became adapted for different purposes in different creatures: to attract a mate, like a peacock's tail, or for insulation.

Others became adapted for fast swimming between the surface and the bottom.

The protobranchs feed in a different way, scraping detritus from the seabed, and this may be the original mode of feeding used by all bivalves before the gills became adapted for filter feeding.

The regular course of events seems to be, that a part which originally served for one purpose, by slow changes becomes adapted for widely different purposes".

Second, all four appear to have become adapted for arboreal life, as in the lower primates, the "four-handed folk".

The nervous system becomes adapted for hearing and stereoscopic vision, and for new methods of locomotion and feeding.

(The model number differences reflect models adapted for different cellphone systems).

This speciation occurs because different parasitic populations become adapted to living on different hosts and coping with the defenses of these hosts.

You can imagine a time when different parts of our bodies are adapted for different needs.

Skulls, too, have adapted for different ways of eating, for animals that are predators and those that are prey.

The great classics such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Giselle have been adapted for different audiences.