Sentence examples for fit offspring from inspiring English sources
But the evolutionary cause of producing fit offspring will have been served.
If it is promising, it is selectively bred with other fit offspring to see if the results, when subject to further mutation, can do even better.The idea of evolutionary algorithms is not new.
The inbred females are apparently able to weed out sperm from kin that would lead to less fit offspring.
What we now know is that male peacocks with well-endowed trains tend to get more mates than those with more modest trains and also produce more fit offspring (Hale et al. 2009).
Furthermore, under such conditions, natural selection would favour the development of barriers to hybridisation, as individuals that avoided hybrid matings would tend to have more fit offspring, and thus contribute to the reproductive isolation of the two incipient species.
Deer mice (Peromyscus maiculatus) that were experimentally infected with Schistosomatium douthitti, for example, were shown to delay breeding and give birth to heavier (more fit) offspring.
This selection in utero presumably contributes to the fitness of the population by keeping women from investing in less fit, while leaving them available to conceive fitter, offspring.
In the selection phase of GEMA algorithm, the program picks the N fittest offspring and forms from them the new generation.
If the intersexual correlation for fitness is small or negative, choosing a highly fit mate does not necessarily result in high fitness offspring.
As described above, the shaded background of the landscape corresponds to the fitness level of individuals at that location, with individuals in the darkest regions being the least fit (one offspring each), and those in the lightest regions being the most fit (four offspring each).
Diseases, invasive species, disruption of reproductive cycles, and less fit hybrid offspring are just some of the risks that parrots and other species face when they are released in unfamiliar places and begin to reproduce with individuals from different populations.
