This arguably would confirm 'necessity' as the most powerful driver for the evolution of intelligence.
"This has been demonstrated in only a few species so far, and has been implicated as a significant driver for human evolution," Krützen said.
The main driver for the evolution of the giraffes is believed to have been the change from extensive forests to more open habitats, which began 8 mya.
The driver for the evolution of hypopigmented humans i.e., Caucasians is likely due to the need to have more vitamin D producing solar UVB radiation to penetrate into the skin to produce vitamin D3.
Here, we discuss three general evolutionary problems that have the potential to dramatically influence the evolution of cancerous traits, but remain to be rigorously explored empirically: the evolution of drug resistance and associated costs, cooperation and conflict between cancerous and noncancerous cells, and resource competition as a driver for the evolution of metastasis.
It has recently been proposed that the advantages of a narrow sonar beam while in search of prey may have been the primary driver for the evolution of high frequency sonar signals in both whales and bats (Koblitz et al., 2012; Jakobsen et al., 2013; Madsen and Surlykke, 2013).
He concludes that the empirical evidence in support of bet-hedging as an important driver for the evolution of facultative diapause, migration polyphenism, spatial distribution of oviposition, egg size, and other traits is weak or doubtful, and that inter-annual environmental variability often turns out to be too weak to favour (substantial) risk-spreading.
In recent times, multiple antenna systems have been one of the main technological drivers for the evolution of wireless communications.
These tests indicate that AD STUs occur in areas where habitat disruption through glacial cycles is more likely, providing further support for the role of colonisation advantage and reproductive assurance in a metapopulation as drivers for the evolution of AD.
Recombination is an important process for generating new genetic diversity within bacterial populations and is a known driver of evolution in many bacterial species [ 50].
