And just as interruptions to natural ecosystems affect the fate of biological species, so wars and depressions and shifts in taste affect the economic landscape of the cultural marketplace, enhancing or hindering survival of material "species".
Indeed, a perceptual theorist can even give, plausibly, an evolutionary story about why these perceptual experiences should feel unpleasant: they represent or signal a property of body parts that tends to hinder survival.
Given enough genetic diversity, local populations can adapt to their local environment, but dispersal may hinder survival across ecological clines as dispersers tend to be maladapted to the new local environment.
We propose that NMDA receptor antagonists failed stroke and traumatic brain injury trials in human beings because blockade of synaptic transmission mediated by NMDA receptors hinders neuronal survival.
Astomonema is able to exploit the reduced environment where patchy oxygen limitation hinders the survival of other, less tolerant genera and can use reduced compounds as a food resource through an endosymbiotic pathway.
The average obtained (39.4) in the Financial concern domain probably was the low per capita income of the respondents, which hinders the survival of the individual.
Poor care for lung cancer patients is "hindering" their survival, an expert group says.
The geomorphic role of animals at treeline may assist or hinder seedling survival.
(The remaining 10% are plain dangerous: they freak out and hinder the survival chances of everyone else).
But what is really hindering their survival hopes is the lack of a cutting edge up front, with Scott Brown in the home goal untroubled throughout.
