Sentence examples for enormous selective advantage from inspiring English sources

Genetic evidence shows that the mutations conferred an enormous selective advantage on their owners, enabling them to leave almost 10 times as many descendants as people without them.

Frizzled receptors are ubiquitous among multicellular animals and, with other signaling molecules, they very likely evolved to permit the development of the complex tissue architectures that provide multicellular animals with their enormous selective advantage.

We only state that, from the moment bilateral symmetry arose in macro-animal evolution it represented a potentially enormous selective advantage over other body plans assuring faster changeovers and a more precisely directed locomotion.

The researchers note that this maneuverability is of selective advantage in a dogfight with a bat.

Waller, B. M. et al. Paedomorphic facial expressions give dogs a selective advantage.

So geneticists had long argued that it must confer a selective advantage.

Once in a blue moon, you will get a mutation that confers a selective advantage.

The CC genotype that could use folic acid with most efficiency would convey selective advantage.

Without cheating, m-hit mutants would not enjoy a selective advantage over the dominant populations.

In Africa, those who carried the mutation were able to leave 10 times more progeny, creating a strong selective advantage.

So was the larger brain a genetic mutation that increasingly delivered a selective advantage in the struggle for survival?