Sentence examples for evolved to digest from inspiring English sources

We are not evolved to digest it".

In Barber's experience, though, whether or not milk is pasteurized is secondary to what the cow — in his view, a "vector for the grass" — eats: not only are pasture-fed ruminants eating food they evolved to digest, but also their milk reflects the subtle, seasonal changes in the field.

This has made it artificially "affordable" to feed corn even to animals that were never evolved to digest it (salmon, for example).

Cows have not been evolved to digest corn, but it's become the basic feed of industrial agriculture livestock.

More research is needed to understand how the bonnethead evolved to digest plants, or if any other sharks share its omnivorous leanings.

Therefore, these endochitinase-like proteins in Lac may have evolved to digest cellulose, allowing Lac, and possibly other grass-feeding skippers in the Hesperiinae subfamily, to feed on grasses that are rich in cellulose.

"We evolved to crave sugar because sugar is an energy-rich food," Harvard professor of evolutionary biology Daniel Lieberman explained in an NPR interview with Terry Gross, "but we didn't evolve to digest large amounts of it rapidly".

That's why people today can have up to 18 amalyse gene copies, indicating that we have evolved to be able to digest starches more efficiently.

In common with humans, the pig is an omnivore and its gastrointestinal tract (GI) has evolved to be able to masticate, digest and absorb a wide range of foodstuffs.

Seeds develop thick hulls to survive the chemical and mechanical processes associated with being eaten and digested, and have evolved to only germinate after this process has occurred.

For instance, several populations independently evolved the ability to digest milk as adults around the same time as humans started dairy farming, while some populations evolved extra copies of the enzymes needed to digest starch.