Sentence examples for evolving adaptations from inspiring English sources

Herbaceous grasses of the subfamily Bambusoideae are generally limited to lowland tropical forests, and some of them (e.g., Pariana) have overcome the relative absence of wind currents by evolving adaptations to insect pollination.

We hypothesize that the relative scarcity and uncertainty of summer rain on the Colorado Plateau prevents most species from evolving adaptations that would improve their use of summer rain.

Evolving adaptations to any one of these would be a challenge.

With our framework, we enable the design of comprehensible and dependable dynamically evolving adaptation logics.

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).

Third, given certain genotypes become better adapted than their competitors to disturbed environments, they can then evolve adaptations to increase the environmental disturbance from which they benefit, i.e. become proactive invaders (Brown et al. 2008).

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.

He explained that the word "learning" implied a brain and should be reserved for animals: "Animals can exhibit learning, but plants evolve adaptations".

Interestingly, several groups of teleosts that emerged much later in evolution have independently evolved adaptations that enable them to spend a considerable part of their life on land.

In turn, this implies that complex forms of communication cannot be explained only as evolved adaptations to a demanding social environment15.