Sentences with phrase «apparent function»

A different hypothesis, which Haselton and Gildersleeve also find plausible, proposes that shifts in women's mate preferences across the menstrual cycle were adaptive in a now - extinct species that predated humans and are vestigial in humans — that is, like the coccyx, or tail bone, that remains at the end of the human spine, they persist in modern humans despite serving no apparent function.

In 2000, when scientists of the Human Genome Project presented the first rough draft of the sequence of bases, or code letters, in human DNA, the initial results appeared to confirm that the vast majority of the sequence — perhaps 97 percent of its 3.2 billion bases — had no apparent function.

That said, this still leaves a majority of our genome with no apparent function.

Dogs without sufficient stimulation will engage in stereotypical behaviors, which are repeating patterns of behavior that have no apparent function: excessive licking, destructive chewing, barking, rubbing on things, digging, pacing, banging against things, mouthing, jumping, acting crazy and unruly, marking, and so forth.

The term stereotypy describes a sequence of behaviors that's repeated over and over with no apparent function.

Do you have a dog that engages in repeating patterns of behavior that have no apparent function, such as: hyper vigilance / territoriality, excessive licking, chewing, obsessive / compulsive behaviors, barking, rubbing on things, digging, pacing, irritability, banging against things, marking, excessive fear or aggression, separation anxiety, or some other strange behavior?

Stereotypical behaviors are repeating patterns of behavior that have no apparent function: excessive licking, sucking on flanks, destructive chewing, barking, digging, pacing, tail chasing, swallowing objects, rubbing on things, banging into walls, excessive marking, and so forth.