Sentence examples for mortality evolution from inspiring English sources

At Hartford Stage, Mr. Albee's musings on monogamy, mortality, evolution, anthropology, civilization and all that, are transformed from pretentious twaddle into high theater.

Since most longevity-associated genes, such as APOE, will cause a distribution around a mean for the corresponding mortality, evolution will rarely, if ever, manage to push deleterious gene action entirely beyond the reach of selection, although as envisaged by Medawar there will be a continual selection pressure to postpone such action to later and later ages.

Increasing mortality induces evolution of rapid maturation and faster senescence in Drosophila [17] and a comparison of longevity in chemically protected (venomous) vertebrates as compared to non-venomous sister taxa also supports the theory that reduced predation induces evolution fo retarded senescence [18].

We will characterize the pattern of spread, mortality, and evolution of the 1918 influenza across India using spatial or temporal data.

Scenario E (' Evolution, mortality driven by low level of cumulated carbon reserve'), in which mortality only occurred when the carbon reserve at the end of the year (CumCR) fell below a critical value (Type I mortality, Table 1).

Scenario F (' Evolution, mortality driven by low level of carbon reserve at budburst'), in which mortality only occurred when the carbon reserve before budburst (bbCR) fell below a critical value (Type II mortality, Table 1).

We plotted sensitivity and specificity on a ROC graph and the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated for the different variables to predict mortality or poor evolution.

rachovii to test for the effects of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of life-history traits in Nothobranchius.

Both our study and that by Reznick et al. (2004) suggest that extrinsic mortality influences the evolution of functional life-history traits.

The peculiar ecology of annual fishes offers a complementary model system to study the effects of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of aging.

Recently, a systematic study of natural isolates of the small tropical fish guppy (Poecilia reticulata) experiencing high and low levels of predation detected no effect of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of longevity or reproductive lifespan, but did detect an effect on functional parameters of aging [19].