Sentence examples for offspring evolution from inspiring English sources

Because male wasps duped by the orchids are likely to leave fewer offspring, evolution would favor males who somehow learn to distinguish flowers from females.

"Our goal is continuous genesis of offsprings, evolution and extensions," Printed Nest writes on their website.

Its opponents believe the principal force to be kin selection: when individuals favor kin (other than offspring), the evolution of altruistic behavior is favored.

Darwinism only posits three major ingredients for evolution; offspring vary from their parents and siblings, offspring resemble their parents more than non-kin, and more offspring are born than can survive in their environment.

To test stochastic influences for the evolution offspring solicitation and parental sensitivity, we ran simulations where offspring solicitation and parental sensitivity could both mutate and co-evolve.

The ZnD induced a significant reduction in female offspring body weight evolution and in mammary gland development.

For these participants, only beneficial traits are passed from parent to offspring, necessitating that evolution always results in improvement.

In Figure 5 we display the evolution of offspring fitness and of offspring resemblance to their nearest parent as a function both of the genomic locations used for recombination between the two parental genomes to create the offspring genome and as a function of the phenotypic distance between the two parents.

If antagonistic co-adaptation drives the evolution of offspring solicitation, begging costs during the offspring stage are not necessary for evolutionary stability, and the evolved (neutrally stable) solicitation level is determined by the sensitivity expressed in the parental stage.

Sexual reproduction, on the other hand, provides possibilities for variation among offspring and thus assists evolution by allowing new pairs of genes to combine in offspring.

Only once parents evolve sensitivity to an otherwise selectively neutral offspring cue, can the evolution of an offspring signal originate [47].