Sentence examples for selective benefits from inspiring English sources

Changes in environmental conditions alter the outcome of natural selection, affecting the selective benefits of subsequent adaptations that improve an organism's fitness in the new conditions.

In reality, however, while alliances can achieve selective benefits, they always exact significant costs: they involve coordinating two separate operations, reconciling goals with an independent entity, creating a competitor, and giving up profits.

Selective benefits always involve means and eligibility testing, and the more intrusive the testing the lower the take-up of the benefit.

The victory came after several church-state separation watchdog groups complained last month to the Secretary of the Army that a Christian-themed concert held at the fort last September gave "selective benefits" to religious groups.

The three groups -- Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina -- on Tuesday (July 5) complained to the Secretary of the Army about events that appear to give "selective benefits" to religious groups.

Intracellular bacteria tend to evolve distinctly smaller genomes than extracellular ancestors, presumably reflecting selective benefits for fewer genes as unnecessary environmental but also DNA repair and replication genes are deleted.

Reproductive death provides no selective benefit (unless group-selection theories of aging are correct) and 'grandmother hypothesis' contradicts the evolutionary theory.

Here, where we consider underlying population sizes of order N=10, and strongly beneficial mutants with selective benefit of the order of 10−2 per generation, selection is by far the dominant force above a frequency of q0, such that a deterministic model for haplotype evolution may be considered.

Autosomal genes could also be selectively retained when retroposed to another autosome if they would confer a selective benefit if testis expressed.

Models developed by Parker [ 16] considered different advantages that could derive from an increase in sperm size, and concluded that, if the main selective benefit is that sperm become more competitive, sperm competition should not select for an increase in sperm size.

In previous studies including both white and black patients, BiDil provided a selective benefit for the black subjects.