Some people have suggested that Darwin failed to recognize the evolutionary importance of sperm competition.
The decision to play safe or take a chance seems to have evolutionary importance in all forms of animal life.
The evolutionary importance of shame and humiliation provides a plausible explanation of why more unequal societies suffer more violence".
But biologists are just beginning to appreciate the evolutionary importance of this individual variation.
The development of denticles (toothlike skin projections) and teeth represents another specialization of evolutionary importance.
Beyond the Average: the Evolutionary Importance of Gene Interactions and Variability of Epistatic Effects in Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process 20 38 (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 2000).
Its evolutionary importance seems self-evident; typically, kids can do this by the time they're a year old.
The ability to interbreed is of great evolutionary importance, because it determines that species are independent evolutionary units.
The researchers used 25 years of data on a population of wild sheep living on an island in northwest Scotland to assess the evolutionary importance of infection tolerance.
Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School and the author of "Survival of the Prettiest," a study of the evolutionary importance of beauty, points out that while breasts are central to female attractiveness, attractiveness and happiness are barely correlated.
To fill this gap we developed a computational Evolutionary Trace method that ranks the evolutionary importance of amino acids in protein sequences.
