The paradox of robustness arises from evolutionary dynamics: enhanced robustness causes an evolutionary reduction in the adaptive performance of the target character, leading to a degree of maladaptation compared to what could be achieved by natural selection in the absence of robustness mechanisms.
In an evolutionary context, enhancing the storage of frightening memories makes sense: the more vividly you remember scary situations, the more likely you may be to stay away from them in the future.
Grouping perceptual information has a distinct evolutionary advantage, enhancing survival by reducing perceptual load (the burden of interpreting a scene from visual information).
Indeed, extant xenarthran species are relicts from an evolutionary radiation enhanced by their isolation in South America during the Tertiary era, a period for which major climate variations and tectonic events are relatively well documented.
The challenge, as we see it, is to design genetic studies to clarify aspects of the evolutionary process that are unavailable at the purely phenotypic level, and can enhance evolutionary interpretations.
A study finds association between the occurrence of intimate partner violence and marital fertility among Tsimané forager-horticulturalists, independent of proximate explanations, suggesting that intimate partner violence may persist as an evolutionary strategy to enhance male fitness.
Part of the answer, he argues, is that fictional thinking engages innate "play" modules that enhance evolutionary fitness (that is, the ability to propagate one's genes) by allowing us to consider possible alternatives — hypothetical situations — so that we can form plans in advance of dangers or even just unpleasant social situations.
The specific location of CS might be a convergent evolutionary solution to enhance visual function on HM.
Due to the continuing and evolving practices of contract cheating, there is a need for an evolutionary approach to enhance assessor evaluation skills beyond discipline related practices and academic writing conventions.
Thus quantitative evolutionary ecology could enhance the potential for biomedicine to tailor treatments to epidemiological settings.
Given the crucial importance of reward for survival, multiple, flexible learning systems are biologically plausible and would enhance evolutionary fitness.
