Sentence examples for less well adapted from inspiring English sources

"Today, if you see French wines losing market share, it's because our products are less well adapted," he said.

Through "the relentless culling" of "the less well adapted," only traits that favor survival -- including increases in brain size and complexity -- are passed along to descendants.

Represented by wing and leg bones, these birds are inferred to have had longer limbs than present forms and to have been less well adapted for flight underwater than are contemporary species.

Alternatively, if C4 plants are less well adapted to flooded conditions than C3 plants for reasons unrelated to photosynthetic pathway, then substantial benefits may result from introducing C4 rice plants into flooded soils.

"Just lowering your hemoglobin alone would make you less well adapted to high altitude," points out Jorde.

Scientists originally thought that S. ryanii wouldn't thrive because it seemed less well adapted than other species for the hot, dry landscapes of the West.

And at every step, the better-adapted descendants of that group would most probably wipe out the less-well adapted stock of their immediate ancestors.

This population could represent less specialized organisms, not so well adapted to a concrete selective pressure, but able to perform optimally in a wider diversity of environments [52] due to their higher degree of genotypic and phenotypic diversity.

Compared with Ae aegypti, Ae. albopictus is considered to be an inefficient epidemic dengue vector because it is less anthropophilic and not as well adapted to urban domestic environments (18 ).

When two populations of a species had diverged beyond a certain point, each adapted to particular conditions, hybrid offspring would be less well-adapted than either parent form and, at that point, natural selection will tend to eliminate the hybrids.

Therefore, the selection of different prokaryotic taxa by NH4+-N would shift the community structure through the adjustment of species abundance (species sorting), in which those species genetically better adapted to high NH4+-N may outcompete other less well-adapted species.