Sentence examples for have been the ability from inspiring English sources

As for how human ancestors evolved more sophisticated cooperation, Dr. Hare suggests that one major adaptation must have been the ability to avoid being exploited.

One of the first characteristics of life that emerged in primeval times must have been the ability of some primitive chemical system to make copies of itself.

In this respect, an advantage of working at the individual tree level would have been the ability to tease apart the effects of tree size on both growth and δ13C (e.g., Koch et al. 2004) under varying conditions of soil water availability.

This result may have been the ability of the ND1 gene to detect distant relationships as these species belonged to the same superfamily.

Because regret is a counterfactual emotion (see Kahneman & Miller, 1986) that involves comparing what is to what might have been, the ability to experience regret must develop after the ability to think counterfactually.

It might have even been as simple as the prime benefit of amino acids have been the ability of buffering the pH of the system and di-peptides would have then the advantage of being more confined to the containment (the "cell").

"The only control you have is the ability to maintain the discipline of the search".

What they didn't have was the ability to go to scale.

All they have is the ability to think from first principles, think from scratch.

What women did not have was the ability to figure out what actually worked.

All they have is the ability to think, you know, think from first principles, think from scratch.