Sentence examples for pace of adaptation from inspiring English sources

The pace of adaptation depends not only on genomic mutation rate but also on the rate of replication and final population size of those genomes (Moya et al. 2004).

The effect is to ultimately slow the pace of adaptation and extend the time before growth evolves, increasing the risk of extinction.

Our second test addresses the pronounced difference in cumulative fitness gains that is predicted under the particular non-transitive model in which the rate of adaptation has not slowed, and the transitive model where the measured deceleration in fitness against the ancestor also indicates a slowing pace of adaptation.

Above this threshold, the rate of adaptation fails to keep pace with the rate of change in the optimum, and absolute fitness decreases with increasing adaptational lag, eventually causing extinction.

In a curious role reversal, the movement of the mountains outstripped the pace of human adaptation.

At the same time, the foreign manufacturers' entry into China's market has accelerated the pace of technology adaptation and update.

Low heritabilities will limit the pace of future adaptation in populations that already show some resistance, such as our focal populations.

Moreover, populations that have coevolved with specific infectious microparasites may show lower heritabilities than newly exposed populations, limiting the pace of future adaptation (Crozier et al. 2008).

Consequently, this deceleration indicates that the pace of genetic adaptation has indeed slowed, although it has not completely stopped [ 3], in the long-term E. coli evolution experiment.

The scale and the pace of this adaptation are likely to depend on many location-specific parameters (e.g., built environment characteristics).

(H2) The rate of adaptation continues at the initial rapid pace, and the apparent deceleration is an artifact of using the ancestor as the common yardstick to measure adaptation.