Sentence examples for leave offspring from inspiring English sources

Variant organisms will leave offspring like themselves.

The term natural selection is shorthand for saying that all organisms do not survive to leave offspring with the same probability.

In the gentle mode, genotypes with moderate fitness values can leave offspring.

Their bearers were more likely to survive to leave offspring with these same variations.

In the radical mode, only a small number of genotypes with the highest or near highest fitness values can leave offspring.

It has three components: (1) it explains why sexual dimorphism exists, and its central role in sexual selection; (2) the dimorphic structures or behaviors are used by one gender to attract mates or repel rivals for mates; and (3) these structures and behaviors help the bearer gain access to mates (not necessarily leave more offspring, but to leave offspring more competitive in mating; Figure 12).

But that's not because parents worry about leaving offspring with "strangers"; most Swedish toddlers are in subsidized preschools, and most parents finish their jobs in time to pick them up.

Birds with too much corticosterone often abandon their nests, leaving offspring to the elements.

On the face of it, this concept does not seem to be related to leaving offspring, so let us see how the concept of 'fitness' became for so many evolutionary biologists 'how many offspring you leave'.

Following Harald's death in 1040, Harthacanute succeeded him for a short time, but as neither Harald nor Harthacanute left offspring, the throne was offered to Edward on Harthacanute's death in 1042.

Although caste in the social insects can be a highly specialized adaptation for defense, for food storage, or for brood care, its attendant sterility does not serve caste members well in leaving offspring of their own for the next generation.