As the centuries went on, however, this economic relationship seems to have become less advantageous to Sicily, and some modern scholars see the relationship as frankly exploitative.
Therefore, if predators are using size as a cue to discriminate between models and mimics, mimicry may start to become less advantageous to the mimic with decreasing body size.
The pay-off matrix in the game is consequently changed; to be a hawk, as well as to be an allele for small body size, will become less advantageous than it was during the equilibrium that existed before the selection started.
"But it's equally possible," he said, that territorial aggression becomes less advantageous at certain stages of human evolution, so that it died out and re-emerged in humans later.
However, a thorough strategic review with our board shows that keeping eBay and PayPal together beyond 2015 clearly becomes less advantageous to each business strategically and competitively.
At a price spread greater than 69%, the inclusion of RSM in the diet became less advantageous, and it appeared only one time in the formulated diets.
"A thorough strategic review... shows that keeping eBay and PayPal together beyond 2015 clearly becomes less advantageous to each business strategically and competitively," EBay's chief executive John Donahoe said.
In contrast, higher earnings and greater labor force participation of married women reduce the gains from marriage (and raise the attractiveness of divorce) so that the sexual division of labor within the household becomes less advantageous (Becker 1985).
In children above the age of 18 months microsurgical treatment becomes less advantageous and tendon transfers appear to be the method of choice [ 1, 2, 5- 9].
Such convergent evolution is likely driven by selection; this would suggest that these resistance mechanisms impose a fitness cost upon the host cell and, therefore, tend to degrade as they became less advantageous [ 9].
I asked Dr. Painter whether, as whiteness becomes less plainly advantageous, as it becomes better to be rich and black, for example, than poor and white, there will be more explicit calls for white pride and white solidarity.
