Sentences with phrase «adaptive value»

Talking to others is a common mechanism that is usually displayed when confronting traumatic events, and it may have a positive adaptive value.
Avoidant and ambivalent attachment patterns also have different adaptive values for boys and girls, in the context of same - sex competition in the peer group: in particular, the competitive and aggressive traits related to avoidant attachment can be favored as a status - seeking strategy for males.
The second vision is that some aspects of form have greater adaptive value and that the remainder evolve collaterally from changes in these.
Some researchers speculate that the brain is so readily trained for compassion and generosity because those traits carry adaptive value.
The researchers concluded it is likely that ancient farmers favored the VRN - D4 variant of the vernalization gene in this region because of its high adaptive value in the local environment.
This shift to phylogenetically older midbrain regions has adaptive value because these structures control fast reflexive behaviors (e.g., fight, flight, or freeze) as well as fear - induced analgesia.
So in lieu of sworn testimonials from the animal kingdom, the «proof» of female orgasm's adaptive value still redounds to the person who can tell the most convincing story about its history of selection.
As the hypothesis goes, the Pacific Islander metabolism is working anabolically as hard as possible every chance it gets, because there was a clear and present adaptive value that did not exist in the majority of situations.
«In species whose young completely depend on their caregivers for sustenance and protection, (this) response has a clear adaptive value, contributing to enhance offspring chances of survival,» said Borgi.
Alterations in neural systems involved in reward processing, decision - making, and affect regulation may have a proximal adaptive value early in development, but alterations may also incur long - term costs, increasing the risk for later psychopathology, including addiction.
Trends continue while they have adaptive value for the organism as a consequence of natural selection.
There have been a number of hypotheses suggested to explain queen bee's multiple mates, but there has been no convincing evidence for an adaptive value, says Robert Page, an entomologist at Arizona State University.
«To my knowledge, this is the first evidence» of the adaptive value of genetic diversity.
That's why I wrote the book Sociobiology, about the adaptive value of cooperative behaviors.
In Darwinian terms, what is the adaptive value of the female orgasm?
Those were bred by humans, so I don't see the relevance to my point, which is about the selective advantage (not: adaptive value; an interesting but subtly different subject) of having a (dense, thermally insulating) coat vs. not having one.
Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).
The actors are seriously exploring how to make it fresh and meaningful, but the writing binds them to the prosaic as it focuses on sex, confusion and adaptive values.
Because knowing whether or not to trust others has adaptive value, the amygdala spots subtle cues of inconsistency or deception.
Ethologists believe that children's behaviors can be best understood in terms of their adaptive value.
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