Sentence examples for preserved traits from inspiring English sources

Both agree that, given a geological timescale, these preserved traits will eventually accumulate in new forms of life.

The nematode C. elegans has been used in several studies to identify and characterize evolutionarily preserved traits associated with host-pathogen interactions [ 10] and also supplies the possibility for fast large-scale and economically feasible in vivo screens of new antimicrobials, along with their mode(s) of action [ 11].

This teleonomy is the quality whereby the process of natural selection creates and preserves traits that are seemingly fitted for the functional roles they perform.

His worship preserved distinctive traits, chief among them an exploration of the analogies between divine love and human love.

In 2000, however, Brian Stafford and Frederick Szalay argued that Dermotherium might not be a colugo, since the fossil is so poorly preserved that few traits can be unambiguously recognized and some purported dermopteran features of the fossil are in fact also seen in other placental groups.

Although the shorter life expectancy for those with the homozygous condition would not sustain the trait's survival, the trait is preserved because of the benefits provided by the heterozygous form.

The helping traits are preserved and proliferate through relatives, not direct offspring: kin selection.

Cultural evolutionists agree that at the level of the population, cumulative evolution requires that fitness-enhancing cultural traits are preserved in the offspring generation.

These fibroblast populations were negative for cytokeratin, whereas they expressed fibroblastic marker vimentin, which suggests that some fibroblast traits were preserved in the CAFs.

Divergent local preferences for several morphological traits have preserved a wide range of grain width, colour, plant stature, flag leaf angle and various culinary qualities and have led to conservation of enormous allelic diversity.

The discussion we could be having needn't be shrill attempts to preserve "traditional" masculine traits or deny the privilege men experience in various ways through society, the way men's rights activists tend to.