Sentence examples for evolution of adaptation from inspiring English sources

Nagel wonders whether a teleology inherent in nature, such as Aristotle's, unconnected with any god (Gilson 1971) will explain the origin of life and evolution of adaptation.

The manuscripts have been selected to highlight Darwin's thinking on divergence, described in Dr. Kohn's notes to the manuscripts as "Darwin's attempt to explain how, through natural selection, one species living in a single range would split into separate descendant species".6 This principle plays a central role in his views about the evolution of adaptation and the origin of species.

Only a detailed QTN approach was able to reveal the mechanistic connection between the evolution of adaptation and reproductive isolation.

The process of convergence described here fits better than traditional theory with what the evolution of adaptation looks like empirically.

Clearly, further work, especially theoretical models, based in population genetics, genomics, and the evolution of adaptation, is necessary to properly address this point.

These costs may provide a means of maintaining the genetic variation in protection against competing fungi that is required for the evolution of adaptation to fungal competitors.

Consequently, sexuality will be a primary target for the evolution of adaptations — anatomical, physiological, and psychological adaptations.

In this study, we take a combined evolutionary and biomechanical approach to examine the evolution of adaptations to carnivory in the polar bear cranium.

Predation is one of the strongest selection pressures, and its importance in the evolution of adaptations, such as cryptic coloration, chemical and other defences etc. has long been recognised [5], [6], [36].

If polar bears evolved from coastal populations of brown bears [6], as molecular evidence now suggests [3] [5], [17], then rapid evolution of adaptations for semi-aquatic life and hypercarnivory could have occurred to facilitate foraging over wider areas.

This divergence in interest between the sexes results in the evolution of adaptations and counter adaptations that increase sexual dimorphisms.