Sentence examples for evolved adaptations from inspiring English sources

Hypotheses that human behavior also may have evolved adaptations at the group level have been proposed to explain the adaptiveness of many human cultural traditions (Boyd and Richerson 1985; Sober and Wilson 1998; Wilson 2002).

A. These fish have evolved adaptations to a very cold environment, said Dr. Kurt Fristrup, assistant director of the Cornell University Bioacoustics Research Program, and in some extreme cases can survive in salty sea water that is colder than the freezing temperature of their internal body fluids.

The morality of contemporary humans really does outstrip what evolution could possibly have endowed us with; moral actions are often of a sort that have no plausible relation to our reproductive success and don't appear to be accidental byproducts of evolved adaptations.

The beetles are specialized herbivores of Bursera and both have evolved adaptations in response to the interaction (Becerra 1994).

These findings are briefly discussed in relation to life history theory and evolved adaptations designed to lower high childhood mortality.

The lotic biota, for example, algae, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates, and fishes, have evolved adaptations to their running-water setting.

More plausible theories relate it to an evolved adaptation to protect the woman and her fetus from potentially dangerous foods.

However, deepwater adaptation of rice is not a newly evolved adaptation; rather a remnant from evolutionary progenitor (Bashar et al.2004).2004

A major factor in PBW population dynamics is the evolved adaptation of winter dormancy that enables it to bridge crop cycles.

The information threat theory holds that shame is an evolved adaptation that is designed to limit the likelihood and costs of others forming negative beliefs about the self.

Squeeze a baseball or pen between your thumb and the tips of your fingers: You are using what researchers call a precision grip, a highly evolved adaptation thought to be unique to modern humans and our most recent ancestors.