Sentence examples for fitness indicator from inspiring English sources

So creativity becomes a "fitness indicator," a way to strut one's quality, precisely because it is so wasteful and expensive?

And since music in ancient cultures seems often to have been linked with dancing, a good fitness indicator for the rest of the body, anyone who could sing and dance well was advertising the general excellence of their mental and physical genes to a potential mate.

The shell also becomes a fitness indicator, a sexual selection thing.

This hypothetical fitness indicator would comprise a number of "verbal courtship" traits including creativity, emotional sensitivity, and expressiveness.

The synthesis of the fitness indicator model with the schizotypy-creativity hypothesis can be labeled the sexual selection model (SSM) of schizophrenia and schizotypy.

In their model, schizophrenia represents the negative, maladaptive extreme of a sexually selected fitness indicator, that is, a trait (or suite of correlated traits) that reveals to potential mates an individual's underlying genetic quality (e.g., low deleterious mutation load) and condition (e.g., good nutritional status, low pathogen load).

Miller, G, (2006) Mental traits as fitness indicators: expanding evolutionary psychology's adaptionism.

One of the book's main ideas is that the human traits of art, music and creativity are in there by design, as fitness indicators.

He also periodically tracks 40 to 50 fitness indicators, down to his 'tactile sensitivity.'".

He also periodically tracks 40 to 50 fitness indicators, down to his 'tactile sensitivity.'" Christ.

Supervised exercise was positively related to adherence and improved fitness indicators.