Sentence examples for evolutionary value from inspiring English sources

At any rate, light's evolutionary value is complicated.

Researchers have also been trying to pin down details about the mechanisms and evolutionary value of disgust.

The evolutionary value is that in times of stress — food scarcity, for example — this gene would slow down the aging process and keep you alive longer, so that when times are better, you could reproduce.

This month, in a freewheeling symposium at the University of Michigan on the evolutionary value of art and why we humans spend so much time at it, a number of the presenters supplemented their standard PowerPoint presentations with hands-on activities.

"The evolutionary value and function [of the calming response] is quite clear," Kuroda says: A passive, quiet, compact newborn would be easier for a mother to carry away from danger.

A couple of days in the Ardennes discussing the evolutionary value of petrified human excrement might not come across as the most thrilling way to spend a weekend (no disrespect to Belgium), but it gave us some relaxed time together and did a lot to restore our enthusiasm for the meeting.

In contrast, the average ortholog evolutionary distance value of 0.44 (with values ranging from 0.11 0.82) is about 2.5 fold lower than the one observed for the paralog comparisons.

Memory: An Anthology is itself subject to the same provisions, but it takes a wide view of the subject, raising many a ghost, from Freud's "archaic vestiges" of old experience in the unconscious to Dawkins and the evolutionary "survival value" of the idea of God.

Feminist perspectives, similar to evolutionary frameworks, value variation and seek to eliminate typologies of sex and family structure and embrace fluidity of roles (Fox and Murry 2000; Gowaty 1992).

This method has been used to solve the stationary or evolutionary boundary value problems on domains which consist of two or more overlapping subdomains (see [1 5]).

The solution of these qualitative problem is approximated by an infinite sequence of functions which results from solving a sequence of stationary or evolutionary boundary value problems in each of the subdomains.