Sentence examples for evolving traits from inspiring English sources

We consider a model of sympatric speciation due to frequency-dependent competition, in which it was previously assumed that the evolving traits have a very simple genetic architecture.

Eutherian mammals were rapidly evolving traits that would eventually be found in placental mammals.

This indicates that the strength of selection for evolving traits important in coevolutionary interactions may vary significantly in both space and time.

On the other hand, mean values of evolving traits and length-at-age as well as standard deviation of evolving traits were less sensitive to stochasticity.

Our model also included only a limited number of evolving traits.

The four parameters c0, c1, c2, and c3 describing the PMigRN were thus considered as evolving traits.

Regardless of the mechanism, the possession of GH32 genes in the genome of Agaricomycetes is a rapidly evolving trait.

Stochastic process models of evolution regard an evolving trait as accumulating, over time, random increments drawn from some underlying probability distribution.

Nevertheless, a number of evolved traits that served us as well as could be expected in the past are crude instruments for promoting human interests, and some, in our changed circumstances, are positively detrimental to our wellbeing.

This differs from convergent evolution, where species with different evolutionary histories independently evolve traits that are similar in form or function (such as wings in flying insects, bats and birds) due to similar ecological demands.

That's because the western plants evolved traits that helped them exploit this wide-open environment, says Heather Davis, a graduate student in population biology at University of California, Davis.