Sentence examples for evolutionary sense of from inspiring English sources

This makes good evolutionary sense, of course: our brains have ­developed to conserve our energies for when we need them to survive.

I can see the point, in an evolutionary sense, of virtually everything else - the javelin was useful for hunting, the running useful for chasing or being chased, the long-jump useful for jumping over things etc.

This is true not just in the Donald Trumpian sense of being extremely difficult to get rid of but in the long-term evolutionary sense of surviving multiple geological epochs.

That is true but it misses a crucial point: For humans, and particularly for male humans, a certain degree of novelty-seeking and risk-taking are traits that promote success, not just in the world of business, politics, academia or sports, but in the evolutionary sense of propagating one's genes in the next generation.

Arguably, this conclusion should apply to all mammals, except maybe for present-day humans, in which muscle n-6 PUFA content of competing runners might be decisive for the outcome of short-distance races, but will hardly affect their fitness in the evolutionary sense of the word.

Also, if the need for precursor metabolites is really the limiting factor, then it would make no evolutionary sense to 'waste' most of the glycolysis flux towards the excretion of lactate.

It makes evolutionary sense for some people, in this case to act altruistically, if propagation of genes is driving action in a basic sense.

Yet the potential of the coral-algal symbiosis to genetically adapt in an evolutionary sense to warming oceans is unknown.

Since host and microbiota interactions are inherently unstable, disease may arise at the mucosal surface of a susceptible host when a perturbation occurs in the epithelial environment leading to "unintended" (in an evolutionary sense) consequences of immune or other host cell activity.

Considering the consequences of parasite DNA acquisition in an evolutionary sense, vertical inheritance of integrated DNA and its subsequent drift may contribute to ongoing genetic diversity and speciation in the human population.

In an evolutionary sense, the goal of an individual in reproduction is not to perpetuate the population or the species; rather, relative to the other members of its population, it is to maximize the representation of its own genetic characteristics in the next generation.