The engineers went to see organisms that had evolved to solve their own water treatment problems, like mangrove trees that turn salt water to fresh water, and filter feeders, like barnacles, that eat by straining water.
I haven't looked at them in over a year, so I have no idea if they've evolved to solve these problems.
Evolutionary functional analysis is a form of reverse engineering in that it attempts to reconstruct the mind's design from an analysis of the problems the mind must have evolved to solve" (Buller 2005, 92).
By understanding that these so-called "risky" behaviors must have evolved to solve some adaptive problem faced by our ancestors over time, researchers are better able to think of ways to overcome these obstacles.
Different routes have evolved to solve the same topological issue; that is, cytoplasmic material including proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and whole organelles including ER and mitochondria needs to be transported into the lumen of lysosomes.
This regulatory device could have evolved to solve a metabolic conflict between the enzymatic modules encoded in the TOL plasmid and the indigenous metabolic network of the host, as argued below.
Some say that changing stick technology, which has evolved to make holding the ball under pressure easier, may solve pace-of-play issues.
An efficient algorithm has been evolved to solve these upto the gel point which takes about 3 CPU minutes as opposed to 5 hours reported in literature for similar calculations.
Stanford faculty member Nick McKeown puts it well: "We humans just haven't evolved to solve this kind of problem".
Architectures for neuromorphic computing have evolved to the point where a significant amount of software design and implementation is necessary for leveraging these architectures to solve real problems.
