At Thrifty, for example, a car secured by a credit card is held for six hours beyond a customer's scheduled arrival time, and the reservation can be canceled anytime before arrival without penalty (but customers can be billed for a day's rental if they don't cancel).
This link does not necessarily provide us with evidence that a cultural behavior has caused alterations in the genetic material, unlike the lactose tolerance, malaria resistance, and thrifty metabolism examples in humans.
For example, a "thrifty" team like the Bengals could trade surplus cap room to a cap-needy team like the Cowboys for draft picks.
This super-simple dish is a fine example of thrifty cooking: it takes something cheap and plentiful (spuds) and enlivens it with something rich and intensely flavoured (olive oil and chilli).
For example, the thrifty gene hypothesis posits that populations whose ancestral environments were characterized by periods of feast and famine may have experienced selection for a "thrifty genotype" that promotes efficient fat and carbohydrate storage [ 10].
For example, if the thrifty genotype hypothesis were true, we would expect to observe some of the following characteristics at disease loci: risk alleles would be derived alleles; there would be substantial differences in allele frequency across different populations; and there would be evidence that relatively recently emerging alleles have been swept to high frequency.
The 99-storey Pertamina Energy Tower being built in Jakarta, for example, will be so thrifty that wind, solar and geothermal energy can meet all its power needs.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been characterized as a disorder that is a prototypic example of Darwinian medicine and the thrifty phenotype.
For example Hale et al. have previously proposed a thrifty 'phenotype hypothesis' where poor nutrition in fetal and early infant life predisposes to the later development of Type 2 diabetes through defects in the structure and function of Beta cells of the islets of Langerhans [ 37, 38].
In May, her blog won the judges' choice prize at the glitzy Fortnum and Mason food awards (they praised Monroe's recipes as "so nutritious and thrifty that they are being handed out by food banks as examples of how to manage on next to nothing").
