Sentence examples for thrifty adaptation from inspiring English sources

If, on the other hand, it is a thrifty adaptation, species evolved in highly seasonal environments, species that hibernate or migrate long distances and store substantial amounts of fat before hibernation or migration should show the highest tendency.

Those with thrifty metabolic adaptations, which favoured storage of excess energy as fat would have been more likely to survive and pass on their genes.

He recalled the thrifty gene hypothesis (22) that evolutionary adaptations to lack of nutrient availability underlie many of our metabolic characteristics and noted that the increase in sugar intake over the past several centuries (23) leads to adaptations with desirable effects under circumstances of famine to engender the development of illness.

Such erroneous adaptations, also described as a "thrifty phenotype" [ 40], are the subject of the "foetal and infant origins of adult disease" hypothesis by Barker and colleagues [ 41].

This observation could be explained by either the inheritance of genes that limit fetal growth, such as is described in the fetal insulin hypothesis, or fetal adaptations in response to relative malnutrition in utero (the thrifty phenotype [ 18]).

These observations gave rise to the "thrifty phenotype hypothesis" where the authors postulated that early malnutrition induces physiological and metabolic adaptations promoting early survival, which may however become deleterious for later health [4].

The constellation of reproductive and metabolic adaptations during fetal development in response to undernutrition in utero may be part of a thrifty phenotype which is associated with enhanced reproduction.

Pinterest is thrifty.

Thrifty Yorkshire folk.

She was very thrifty.

We were thrifty.