Sentence examples for gradual adaptive from inspiring English sources

Hatano and Inagaki (1997, p.119 120) reckon that "because naive biology assumes living things, but not non-living things, to be able to adjust to their ecological niche or ways of life, children are ready to accept any biological species gradual adaptive changes over generations, and thus to form a version of the Lamarckian idea of evolution".

Since not every one of the 30-40 different phyla (e.g., chordates, arthropods, mollusks, nematodes) contains each of the genes of this toolkit, the morphological differences among the animal phyla, which emerged more than half a billion years ago, may have been comparably abrupt, and as independent of gradual, adaptive selection as the generation of the novelty of the head crest in pigeons.6.6

It is possible that protection of conserved sites promotes gradual adaptive evolution.

Rather, pure asex arises only through breakage and never through gradual adaptive evolution.

This might reflect adaptive strategies, the first leading to saltatory evolution in r-strategists, the other to gradual adaptive specialization in K-strategists.

This case can be classified as a breakage event, broadly construed, and does not provide an example of gradual adaptive evolution of new structures.

The lower FtH level in HJ16 appears to be part of the adaptive response developed during gradual adaptation of these cells to H2O2.

The lower FtH levels in HJ16 cells might be part of the adaptive response developed during gradual adaptation of these cells to H2O2.

The proposed FRU algorithm employs gradual and adaptive motion estimation based on confidence priority for selecting more accurate motion vectors (MVs).

The process of gradual, stepwise adaptive change emphasized (though not exclusively so) by Darwin has been called "direct evolution" and can be further subdivided into two major types (Thornhill and Ussery 2000): 1.

The gist of the criticisms is that many biological systems are not just complex but "irreducibly complex" and, as such, could never evolve via the Darwinian mechanism of gradual, stepwise adaptive change because intermediate stages of evolution would have no selective value and so could not be fixed.