Sentence examples for evolutionary rationales from inspiring English sources
Once again, soil ecology journals should publish articles involving evolutionary rationales that are particular to soil systems or studying how general evolutionary questions translate into soil ecology.
The technical difficulties could thus partially explain why soil ecology makes a parsimonious use of models and evolutionary rationales and why soil ecology has developed partially independently of general ecology.
Under the acronym DETECTER (Determining Clinically-relevant Transmutations using Evolutionary Rationales), the tool exploits an alignment of homologous sequences, evolutionary models of DNA substitutions or amino acid replacements, phylogenetic analyses, and predictions of ancestral character states throughout the history of the gene family.
There is evolutionary rationale for this kind of change in the brain.
It is a trait that is gradually losing its evolutionary rationale.
As for the thrifty gene, it provides the kind of evolutionary rationale for human behavior that scientists find comforting but that simply cannot be tested.
The neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, in "Phantoms in the Brain" (1998), written with Sandra Blakeslee, provided incongruity theory with a nifty evolutionary rationale.
Nor does reciprocal altruism — the evolutionary rationale behind fairness — imply that people do good deeds in the cynical expectation of repayment down the line.
Our results provide an evolutionary rationale for why public goods provision rarely flourishes in polities that rely only on strong centralized institutions.
There's a good evolutionary rationale for that, they explain: the unexpected snap of a twig ought to stand out, as a sign of potential danger, from the hum of cicadas or the babble of a stream.
The ultimate evolutionary rationale for revenge, vendettas, blood feuds, mob violence, summary justice, lynching, vigilantes, deadly ethnic riots, the code of the streets, and other forms of rough justice is deterrence: if a person anticipates getting beaten up for exploiting people, he'll think twice about exploiting them.
