Sentence examples for evolutionary benefit in from inspiring English sources

Even without flying ability, he said, wings and feathers offered evolutionary benefit, in terms of isolation and catching prey.

Red and green cones, however, pick up about the same amount of information, so there's no evolutionary benefit in keeping their ratio tightly regulated.

It was a demonstration as to why ADHD might be an evolutionary benefit in our media- and technology-saturated modern world.

An adaptive immune system, which remembers previous pathogens and recalls specific responses, has the highest evolutionary benefit in a pathogen environment which changes from host generation to host generation, but is constant enough for multiple exposures with the same parasite strains to occur during the life-time of a host.

In the adaptation view, rape is a facultative reproductive strategy, meaning that rape is the result of natural selection favoring men who commit rape when its evolutionary benefits in terms of producing offspring outweigh its evolutionary costs (such as decreases in the number of offspring produced because of injury or punishment).

There may even be evolutionary benefits in slow speed of kill [38], [43].

In this context, we propose that CpG deamination, which is known to induce variable regional methylation in human populations, constitutes an evolutionary benefit facilitating innovation in gene regulation.

There's an evolutionary benefit to fitting in, the researchers say.

While ortholog-specific introns are likely promoted by selection, by virtue of the intron insertion event coinciding with the duplication event that led to the isoform, the evolutionary benefit of unique introns in established isoforms requires an explanation.

More research is needed to understand whether females always select the same foraging areas, and if so what the evolutionary benefits are in choosing a particular foraging site (e.g. it would be very interesting to compare isotopic values in tissues from the same individual between seasons).

PTSD is basically a chronic dysregulation that is rooted in adaptive evolutionary benefit that came from our early time on the savannah.