Sentence examples for evolutionary functions from inspiring English sources

Therefore, as a first step, the aim of the present study was to identify and characterize the protein profiles of An. stephensi salivary gland in order to establish functional phylogeny among different anophelines and other mosquitoes to validate their evolutionary functions.

Many evolutionary functions have been suggested for the effects of coloration on optical signaling.

"The results of our original research in this area have now been confirmed in an international multinational study on negative postcoital emotions, which appear to have evolutionary functions," he noted.

Asking about the epistemic status of dreams is importantly different from asking about the evolutionary functions of dreaming.

An understanding of these mechanisms and of their evolutionary functions is intended to illuminate the functions of these psychological mechanisms.

They have very different, though equally complex and powerful, minds, brains, and forms of consciousness, designed to serve different evolutionary functions" (Gopnik, 2009, 9).

Such displays may have an evolutionary function.

Yet they never ask what evolutionary function this species-wide phenomenon serves.

Our primitive fight-or-flight response holds an evolutionary function for us to stay alive, and it springs into action the minute we leave our mother's body.

Dr. Nesse and Dr. Gut are not the first to ponder what evolutionary function depression -- and its close relative, sadness or low mood -- might serve.

Re "Logic of Female Orgasm": The good doctor and biologist Elisabeth Lloyd may be overlooking an alternative explanation in arguing that the female orgasm has no evolutionary function.