Sentence examples for evolutionary drivers from inspiring English sources

Feathers and their like are so important because they help address all manner of questions about the origins of birds and powered flight, evolutionary drivers such as display and other behaviours, internal temperatures and levels of activity, how animals use or react to their changing environments and more.

Understanding this variation necessitates a fundamental understanding of the evolutionary drivers of leaf emergence across temperate forests.

Environmental and evolutionary drivers of biological change are likely to interact in ways poorly understood.

We look forward to further studies that attempt to unravel the phylogenetic association between the composition and concentration of eggshell pigments and the evolutionary drivers and functional impacts of variability in eggshell colour.

Despite an increasing interest in the evolutionary drivers of eggshell coloration and maculation [9], little attempt has been made to relate variation in egg coloration to phylogeny or quantify the variability in eggshell colour within versus among diverse taxa.

We suggest that future studies investigating the phylogenetic association between the composition and concentration of eggshell pigments, and between the evolutionary drivers and functional impacts of eggshell colour variability will be most rewarding.

Profligate use of antibiotics has provided the evolutionary driver for bacteria to develop resistance to the drugs.

Sexual selection is a powerful evolutionary driver, and it would be reasonable to assume that, in more primitive human communities, those with the ability to freeze water on command or teleport long distances would be more likely to attract a mate.

One evolutionary driver may have been Britain's gloomy skies: Genes for fair hair also cause lighter skin color, which allows the body to make more vitamin D in conditions of scarce sunlight.

Nevertheless, the fact that the mating preferences of female manakins have caused males to develop heavier, more ecologically costly bones emphasises how powerful an evolutionary driver sexual selection can be.

While speculative at this point, further exploration of this potential evolutionary driver of calcium carbonate skeletons is warranted in our opinion.