Sentence examples for evolutionary opportunity from inspiring English sources

These parasites have turned an evolutionary problem (being killed along with their host) into an evolutionary opportunity (being transferred to the predator and continuing to feed).

Even the "invention of agriculture" -- perhaps the most far-reaching change to this planet we've wrought -- is something we could never have pulled off without the active participation of other species, the ones that seized the new evolutionary opportunity when it presented itself.

All of this "mixing" represents evolutionary opportunity.

Yes, crisis precipitates evolutionary opportunity.

These "accessory" beneficial genes represent an evolutionary opportunity (or therapeutic opportunity) which can be detected by SPI.

Species-poor communities and resultant evolutionary opportunity might also occur with no-analog climates.

However, these chemically noxious prey then become evolutionary opportunities for small consumers (think insects, but in the sea they are usually small shrimplike organisms, crabs or snails) that can gain protection from their own enemies by living on and eating these toxic prey that are not visited by fishes.

With so many distantly related insects finding the same genetic routes to milkweed tolerance, the team concludes that evolution is repeatable although gene duplication can also open up new evolutionary opportunities.

This is because, "Just as adaptive evolution by natural selection is less easy in a small population of a species...because the total pool of genetic variability is less, so it is probable that a group containing many diversified species will be able to seize new evolutionary opportunities more easily than an undiversified group" (Hutchinson 1959).

Yet the devastation caused by the extinction also provided evolutionary opportunities.

Moreover, its heterozygous nature may provide differential evolutionary opportunities in alternating environments.