Sentence examples for valuable offspring from inspiring English sources

All of the wolves are numbered, and their lineages are carefully tracked to determine which ones would produce the most genetically valuable offspring.

Tarantula hawks have not only worked out how to successfully attack a predatory spider but also to reserve the best meals for their most valuable offspring.

I'm not convinced, either, that the most valuable lesson that our offspring can learn is: "The people you love will die". They'll learn it soon enough, anyway, and, when that day comes, it's not going to be any less painful because they've seen Finding Nemo.

But she is also considered among the most "genetically valuable," since she is the offspring of the first lemurs imported from Madagascar to the U.S. in 24 years.

Male offspring are more valuable and sex selection is the earliest manifestation of this bias.

On the other hand, in cities where space is often in short supply, the departure of college-bound offspring opens up some valuable real estate.

Plantation owners used Irish women and black male slaves to produce "light-skinned offspring" who proved more valuable at market, while thousands of children under the age of 14 were kidnapped and transported as slaves.

Genetically engineered monkeys carrying a foreign gene that is passed on to their offspring provide a potentially valuable bridge between mouse models of disease and treatment for human disorders.

Hence in hard times when food might be scarce, daughters were more valuable because their chances of providing offspring would have been greater than sons, who might get killed or fail to find a mate.

Individuals form long-term valuable relationships with their partner and/or offspring, showing spatial proximity and supporting each other in aggressive encounters [23], [24], [25], [26].

With monogamy, helping a parent rear full siblings is as valuable as rearing one's own offspring (r = 0.5 for both, where r is the probability of an allele being identical by descent through a common ancestor).