Sentence examples for evolutionary boost from inspiring English sources

Lieberman and Zink say they don't discount cooking, but instead propose a two-step process: Pounding and slicing provided an initial evolutionary boost to smaller teeth, jaws, and guts; and cooking finished the job later.

Our results imply that, in addition to reference state, the observed probability also makes energy potentials different and evolutionary information greatly boost performance of energy potentials.

The work suggests that scientists are finally beginning to unravel some of the evolutionary steps that boosted the cognitive powers of our species.

'Legends about dwarfs living in caves - not the forests - are found in the west of the island, where the skeletons were found in Liang Bua.' Discovering a tribe of these people, though unlikely, would be a major boost for evolutionary science.

The addition of novel variation can also boost the evolutionary potential of a population providing the genetic variation on which selection can act to adapt the population to novel environmental conditions (Lynch and Lande 1992; Swindell and Bouzat 2005).

The creation of a CCI for eco-evolutionary processes could certainly boost a major change of perspective in biodiversity policy, broadening its scope from the reactive conservation of rare and endangered species to the proactive management of the network of eco-evolutionary processes that may ensure their long-term survival in the face of global change.

Evolutionary genomics has gotten a boost this month to be sure.

The brooding funk brought on by someone else's possessing what we lack gives us the competitive boost to try harder: an evolutionary leg up.

A second explanation is that competition from a second malaria species may boost falciparum gametocytogenesis as an evolutionary adaptation.

Our results on the suppressed mobile activity of PwRn1 in the triploid Paragonimus genomes can boost research to examine the evolutionary impacts of retrotransposons in polyploid animal genomes.

Scientists believe that in our evolutionary past, certain genes that slowed metabolism and boosted appetite would have been beneficial – the so-called "thrifty gene" hypothesis.