The phrase "evolved to prevent" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has developed or changed over time in order to avoid or stop something. Example: The human immune system evolved to prevent infections and illnesses from causing harm to the body. Another example: Many animals have evolved to prevent predators from easily catching them, such as camouflage or sharp defenses.
Evolutionary biologists believe that sexual variety is adaptive, and that it evolved to prevent incest and inbreeding in ancestral environments.
Immune checkpoints are molecular pathways that evolved to prevent T cells from turning against healthy tissue — but that tumours can also exploit.
Says Yushin: "We thought that there might already be a polymer [we could use], because aquatic plants—especially those in seawater are immersed in an electrolyte," and so would have evolved to prevent unwanted reactions.
Although they may have evolved to prevent starvation, they appear to be more accurately described as anti-weight loss mechanisms, engaged with caloric restriction irrespective of the adequacy of energy stores.
For example, an evolutionary theory advanced several years ago by two Cornell scientists -- Dr. Paul W. Sherman, an evolutionary biologist, and Samuel M. Flaxman, then a graduate student -- suggests that the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy evolved to prevent exposure to potentially harmful infectious and toxic organisms in foods, especially during the time that fetal organ systems are developing.
This finding also implies that the idiosyncratic arrays of additional tertiary contacts observed in all naturally occurring full-length hammerhead sequences have evolved to prevent deleterious alternative pairing interactions within the context of the variety of natural sequences arising in vivo.
Did the Hsp90 chaperone system evolve to prevent the expression of abnormal phenotypes?
A complex network of peripheral mechanisms, which are co-evolved to prevent or dampen immune mediated diseases, usually accounts for the activation, expansion and recruitment of T lymphocyte effectors in the infected animals.
Management strategies and genetic techniques are evolving to prevent gene flow.
The sexual antagonist coevolution (SAC) hypothesis predicts that male genitalia evolve to prevent females from mating with other males.
For many parasites, including the one studied here, this occurs through the attachment of the parasites to the host tissues but hosts may evolve to prevent this attachment.
