Sentence examples for mate based on from inspiring English sources

Can we choose who to befriend or whom to have as a mate based on their specific qualities rather than by comparing one to another?

Female dragonflies select a mate based on the quality of the oviposition site on offer.

As if everybody doesn't choose their mate based on the strange criteria that evolution has programmed into our heads.

You wouldn't choose a mate based on how many other potential spouses he or she denied, would you?

Fireflies, which are nocturnal, know when to come out to find a mate based on how dark it is, Branham said.

A team from the same university have now demonstrated that females choose a mate based on these 'hidden' wing colours.

Perhaps more pertinent to understanding the likely links between sexual selection, parental care and mating systems [ 30] is the hypothesis that one or both sexes may choose mates based on their likely investment in parental care.

The day following the matings, we scored females as either mated or not mated based on the presence or absence of eggs on the plate.

This amount of assortative mating is comparable to that found in Weis and Kossler (2004), which is the one previous study to prospectively estimate assortative mating based on flowering phenology.

In two related species the females choose mates based on their coloration.

Female blue whales choose their mates based on size, a selection process that has fostered the species' gargantuan proportions.