"There's no evolutionary selection for lice to be cryptically colored, unless they are removed".
That human penises are so relatively large indicates some evolutionary selection pressure on larger manhood.
Carruthers claims that our innate knowledge is determined through evolutionary selection (p. 111).
Taking the biggest fish each year creates an evolutionary selection pressure: being big is bad.
The physical layout of organs and neural structures in biological systems is important to their functioning, and is the result of evolutionary selection forces.
Dogs and humans co-evolved and share recent evolutionary selection processes, such as adaptation to digest starch-rich diets.
However, there is strong evolutionary selection for functional residues and these cannot be chosen to optimize folding.
In this, cells with self-renewal potency or 'stem-ness' provide genetically diverse units of evolutionary selection in cancer progression.
And yet even if a small proportion did not, this could have exerted strong evolutionary selection against any genes involved.
In other words, stochastic evolutionary selection is itself risk-averse.
This has implications for the evolutionary selection of epigenetic variation.
