The Adrenaline Vault's Pete Hines said, "While Alpha Centauri is the evolutionary off-spring to [Civilization] and [Civilization II], it is not [Civilization II] in space.
aegyptiacus was an evolutionary one-off, or a lucky find hinting that other dinosaurs presumed to be kings on land were in fact sea-dwellers.
But humans have very little regenerative capacity, probably because of an evolutionary trade-off: suppressing cell growth reduced the risk of cancer, enabling humans to live longer.
The evolutionary trade-off between survival and reproductive success of the individual is an interesting example.
The results raise questions about the evolutionary trade-offs faced by the two sexes.
Studies of individual animals in the wild suggest that higher cognition has evolutionary trade-offs.
We conclude that quantitative specialization in ecological communities mirrors evolutionary trade-offs and constraints of web architecture.
"Attempting to understand evolutionary trade-offs is of interest to a broad swath of biologists," Zani adds.
It is acting to enhance chemoreception, in this case, the fish's sense of smell yet another beautiful example of an evolutionary trade-off!
Exposure to higher hormone levels, either incidentally or by design, can have unexpected side effects because of this evolutionary trade-off.
Adaptive evolution offers many opportunities in metabolic engineering; however, several constraints still exist as evolutionary trade-offs may impose collateral cost to obtain new traits.
