Sentence examples for favored the evolution from inspiring English sources
That favored the evolution of smaller humans and smaller elephants, which needed far fewer calories to live.
The course reviews the diversity of parental care in vertebrates and explores the selective forces that have favored the evolution of live-bearing.
Our results suggest that differential post-birth survival rates of turned versus unturned eggs may have favored the evolution of egg-clustering (i.e. eggs attached to each other) in snakes.
The post-glacial sea-level rise caused a marine incursion with invasion of embayments and broad valleys, and it favored the evolution of an estuary with wide tidal mud flats occupied by mangroves between ~ 7400 and ~ 5100 cal yr B.P.
The hypothesis was that the combination of carnivorous diets and high metabolic rates favored the evolution of greater protein and fatty acid utilization leading to insulin resistance and high plasma glucose concentrations in carnivorous birds.
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions.
Thus, two-dimensional mating environments may tend to favor the evolution of contests.
In both cases we show that environments with frequent, unpredictable disasters can favor the evolution of PCD.
Using agent -based simulations, we explore how basic demographic factors, namely bottlenecks and local dispersal, can generate sufficient spatial structure to favor the evolution of high PCD rates.
Even when the drugs do not directly reach humans, soil- and water-living bacteria are exposed to them and experience natural selection favoring the evolution of resistance genes.
There is little exploration of the ecological conditions favoring the evolution of the flexible biofilm production strategy for bacteria in competition with specialist biofilm producers or specialist non-producers.
