Sentence examples for it's disadvantageous from inspiring English sources

The notion is that a gene for helping behavior can thrive even if it's disadvantageous for the individual — so long as it gives the individual's group an advantage over other groups.

It's disadvantageous to get the cart ahead of the horse.

While benefiting some individuals, the social security program is often controversial in its effectiveness; it is disadvantageous for veterans and a burden to the national budget.

In loan "flipping," for example, homeowners are tricked into complex refinancing even when it is disadvantageous to them.

Normal fish do not produce growth hormone in the winter, presumably because it is disadvantageous to do so.

It can be seen, therefore, that sexual selection always favours a polygynous and promiscuous system unless it is disadvantageous to the females, as it is in most birds.

He told Pollard it was a "consistent issue" for him to make sure BBC News felt able to investigate areas "even if it was disadvantageous to Television, or problematic to Television".

Ted Abel, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that one of the reasons why blocker CREB evolved is that it is disadvantageous, in evolutionary terms, for memories to be too robust.Gone but not forgottenUnlearning or in technical terms, "extinguishing"—a memory can sometimes be even harder than learning it in the first place.

Though asexual reproduction is advantageous in that, if the parent animal is well adapted to its environment and the latter is stable, then all offspring will benefit, it is disadvantageous in that the fixed genotype not only makes any change in offspring impossible, should the environment change, but also prevents the acquisition of new characteristics, as part of an evolutionary process.

"Therefore, since one copulation is enough to fertilize all eggs, it is disadvantageous to carry out extra-copulations...given the potential survival costs".

Therefore it is disadvantageous for bacteria to have their repair systems on all the time.