Sentence examples for exaggerated preference from inspiring English sources

Clearly, our data do not support the idea that marmosets display social conformity in terms of an exaggerated preference for the behaviour of the group majority [24].

Research with humans and theoretical models suggest that social conformity, expressed as an exaggerated preference for behaviour displayed by the majority (50% +1) of a group, plays an important role in homogenising and maintaining group behaviour over time [24].

Because protein requirements may have exaggerated mouse preferences for the hydrolysates when Cel was used as the control with a 24-h test paradigm, the three mouse species were tested with HC and intact casein (C).

However, female U. terpsichores did not show a directional preference for exaggerated artificial hoods which were conspicuously larger than average-sized natural hoods [ 30].

This hypothesis states that mate preference for exaggerated male sexual ornaments or displays has evolved to secure fertility benefits for females.

These results suggest that mate preference for exaggerated male eyespan allows females to avoid mating with males carrying the meiotic drive gene and is thus a potential mechanism for the maintenance and evolution of female mate preference.

These fish have been investigated in an effort to improve our understanding of the evolution of several life-history and behavioral traits including viviparity [ 4, 5], the placenta [ 6] and female mating preference for exaggerated male traits such as the sword.

Sexual selection is undoubtedly an important mechanism of signal divergence in many systems; numerous studies have looked for and identified female preferences for exaggerated male traits [45].

The possibility that fertility assurance is a major selective force in the evolution of female mate preferences for exaggerated male sexual ornaments has been discussed most extensively under the heading of the "phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis".

In this particular study, recruiting patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, patients preferred capsule endoscopy over MREg and one might speculate that this preference would be more exaggerated if MREc had been offered.

For example, a preference for large or exaggerated traits (e.g., body size, signals) may predispose females of one species to choose heterospecific males if they possess more extreme traits than conspecifics [ 27]; reviewed in Pfennig 2007].