Sentence examples for by favoring the evolution from inspiring English sources
Natural and sexual selection may also work "in concert" by favoring the evolution of female sexual preferences for male ornaments that signal local adaptation, creating reproductive barriers even in the face of substantial gene flow [ 11].
He credits fire for favoring the evolution of many human traits, including our large brains.
This has been proposed to be an adaptive quality favoring the evolution of melanism.
It was also demonstrated that chemotherapy triggers clonal evolution by favoring the appearance and domination of subclones with driver mutations (such as TP53 or SF3B1) which proliferate and replace the other subclones over time [ 34].
The selection pressure caused by resistant cultivars favors the evolution of virulence (i.e., insect populations capable of feeding and/or reproducing on resistant cultivars, Gould 1991, 1998; Rausher 2001), and ultimately decreases agricultural production and the durability of resistance.
By contrast, sexual selection favors the evolution of mate guarding and territorial behavior in monogamous males, and it is these traits (rather than spatial learning or exploratory behavior) that are compromised by endocrine disruption in P. californicus (Williams et al., 2013).
Here we present a lab that circumvents both of these limitations, allowing students to examine how selection imposed by small-mouthed predators can favor the evolution of simple multicellularity.
Furthermore, adaptation to blood meal acquisition from vertebrate hosts by adult females might have favored the evolution of specialized feeding organs including the proboscis (Maekawa et al., 2011) and enlarged salivary glands (James, 2003).
Thus, two-dimensional mating environments may tend to favor the evolution of contests.
That favored the evolution of smaller humans and smaller elephants, which needed far fewer calories to live.
