Sentence examples for evolutionary legacies from inspiring English sources
We suggest that the long-term evolutionary legacies of AMF-plant interactions in native range of Conyza, as against the relatively short-term and rapid evolutionary relations in non-native regions, might play some role in these differences.
If marginal populations are adapted to more stressful or different biotic and abiotic conditions, they may have high conservation value as evolutionary legacies or components of biodiversity (Hoffmann and Blows 1994; Allendorf et al. 1997; Hardie and Hutchings 2010).
In each case, the costs and benefits of polymorphisms in tandem-repeat number variation are fundamentally embedded in their evolutionary legacies.
Most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives all around us.
"We found no evidence for an eastern or red wolf that has a separate evolutionary legacy," vonHoldt says.
Part of our evolutionary legacy, it seems, is our capacity to express and interpret a variety of cooperative, positive signals.
Thus, the human tendency to coalesce around abstract concepts such as religion or nation, which underpins civilisation, may well be an evolutionary legacy of a violent past.
Biologists have long argued that men's relative willingness to engage in risk is an evolutionary legacy of polygynous mating systems, those in which males with the most resources took more than one mate.
"You would need to screen 10,000 individuals to find a case," said Mel Greaves, a professor of cell biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in England, and the author of "Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy" (Oxford, 2000).
In SuperCooperators, Martin Nowak, a professor of biology and mathematics, and acclaimed science writer Roger Highfield argue that cooperation is an indispensable part of our evolutionary legacy, drawing on mathematical models to make their case.
"These giant tortoises are of crucial importance to the ecosystems of the Galapagos Islands, and the reintroduction of these species will help preserve their evolutionary legacy," said Danielle Edwards, postdoctoral research associate at Yale and lead author on the study.
