Sentence examples for preclude the evolution of from inspiring English sources

This, however, does not necessarily preclude the evolution of deep corolla tubes: even moths visiting plants irrespectively of their floral traits may sample more flowers with their preferred corolla-tube depth than with less preferred corolla-tube depths, provided that they use an appropriate giving-up rule.

From an evolutionary perspective, it has been suggested that phenotypic plasticity can act as a buffer against selection that may delay or even preclude the evolution of local adaptations.

High rates of long-range pathogen dispersal can also preclude the evolution of suicide if local pathogen spread becomes irrelevant compared to the constant arrival of pathogens from the outside.

Such couplings would preclude the evolution of bacteria with reduced export of EAAs, despite the evidence that EAA export is a costly trait for B. aphidicola (when FBA is repeated in conditions where EAA export was removed, biomass production increased by 7% from 5.21 to 5.58 units).

Here we hypothesize that the auditory demands of percussive foraging resulted in a receiver bias that precluded the evolution of lower-frequency contact calls.

Disruptive selection on the ecological character leads to a broad distribution of bill sizes (Fig.  6, upper panel), but speciation does not occur, because stabilising selection on mating strategies precludes the evolution of assortative mating.

Fitness benefits associated with parental care distributed across several males and locations might have outbalanced any alleged benefits of single males, and thereby precluded the evolution of mate preferences in H. valerioi.

The idea of the total dependence of the universe upon God does not preclude the development of the universe in its present phase from the "big bang" onward, including the evolution of the forms of life on Earth.

Because this could preclude the detection of stage-specific evolution, we then re-analyzed our data keeping only the genes that were expressed at one stage.

First, the short duration of our study precludes the ability to describe the evolution of the injury produced beyond the first few hours.

The 'use it or lose it' theme of microbial evolution does not preclude the emergence of relatively large genomes and generalist microorganisms.