Sentences with phrase «best adapted to their environments»

1) Evolution specifically prefers species that are well adapted to their environment, and typically over long periods of time the more well - adapted species will eradicate the others, as they can more easily eat / reproduce / survive (and there are ALWAYS finite resources).

2) «Over the course of evolutionary history, snakes have lost legs, cavefish have lost vision, and parasitic bacterium have lost the ability to live independently in the wild, all in an effort to become better adapted to their environments.»

Natural selection affords a measure of stability and durability, for those populations which happen to be best adapted to their environments continue to survive as other populations tend to die out.

Of course, most mutations make organisms less well adapted to their environments, explaining the extinction of so many species.

Some organisms have undergone relatively little evolution because they're already extremely well adapted to their environment, so they don't need to fine tune anything.

Evolution rewards lifeforms that are best adapted to their environment.

At the same time, both vineyard sites provide a sense of mountain terrain and vines well adapted to the environment.

In general, individuals who are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on their genes.

But it can also produce organisms with new combinations of genes that are better adapted to their environment — which is apparently what happened in the case of L. lugubris.

Scientists have shown over the last few years that in many of these cases the winning males are fitter because they carry genes that make them better adapted to the environment — the so called «good genes» effect.

«It could be that those with the «L» allele or genetic variation can better adapt to their environment.

From these basic observations, it stands to reason that those species best adapted to their environments will survive and those that fall short will die out.

He postulates that as populations migrate and dietary patterns become globalized, people with mtDNA optimized to one environment, where they eat a sub-Saharan African diet, may not be well adapted to another environment, where they may consume a Central European diet.

Just as natural selection works on living populations to ensure that the organisms best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce, genetic algorithms winnow out the «unfit» solutions and refine the ones that best match performance requirements.

Still, parthenogenesis can be beneficial if the mother is particularly well adapted to her environment, since all of her offspring will be just as well adapted.

«Rather than have the populations that live in the indigenous areas adopt foreign technologies that are not well adapted to the environment,» Heckenberger suggests, «why not use some of these homegrown technologies that were used for a very, very long time in the Amazon basin?»

The yeast populations that became best adapted to their environment were the sexual yeasts that underwent complete gene mixing.

Locally raised queens could be better adapted to their environments and are genetically different from their long - distance cousins, adding some much needed diversity to the gene pool.

The key finding, he said, «illustrates how unisexual reproduction introduces limited genetic diversity in clonal populations already well adapted to an environment, which may drive outbreaks of drug resistant pathogenic microbes.»

It holds that natural mutations within a population of organisms will create some new forms that are better adapted to their environment.

Charles Darwin said it's not the fittest who survive nor the most intelligent, but those who can best adapt to their environment.

Naturally we would expect plants to be best adapted to the environment in which they spent the most time evolving and adapting over hundreds of millions of years.

Not exact matches

Q: How do you help aging workers embrace a changing environment and adapt to new ways of doing things, and how can employers better utilize their more senior employees?

«Companies that, through design or accident, have purchased only businesses that are particularly well adapted to an inflationary environment.

Yet when it is done with intention and self - awareness, breaking from regular routines can be a powerful way to stimulate new thinking, break bad habits, adapt better to change, and be more collaborative in a team environment.

Great leaders are good at adapting to the environment around them, and are good at making changes when they're needed.

For these reasons, the small business looking at an approach to business ideal for its own environment may well adapt TQM if it can see that its clientele will reward this approach.

Financial institutions in advanced economies face a number of cyclical and structural challenges and need to adapt to low growth and low interest rates, as well as to an evolving market and regulatory environment.

The combination of low levels of ES funds and the cash rate remaining close to its target suggests a couple of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have adapted well to operating in the new environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.

But that's only used when explaining natural selection and states that the organisms that adapt the best to the environment or enviornmental change survive the most.

This is backwards from the evolutionary theory of natural selection, which states that birds adapt and change in order to survive better in their environment.

This is backwards from the evolutionary natural selection concept that birds adapt and change in order to survive better in their environment.

In fact, Dan and I spent a good part of the drive home time talking about the environment in which he grew up, the different ways in which his brothers and sisters have adopted, adapted, or changed some of those original traditions as they develop their own parenting styles, and how we planned to bring up our kids — should we ever get around to having them!

Animals have to constantly adapt to a changing environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).

Natural selection is a far better explanation for adaptations than purposive forces, especially considering that the better adapted a species is to its environment, the more certain becomes its extinction should the environment change (or in other words, natural selection is blind to the future).

A closed system fits better with a stable environment, is slow to adapt, and strives to change in its context.

If you look at the histories of both God and the Church you'll see that the religious adapt very well to changing environments.

In fact, should the environment now revert to what it was before the whole process started, the organism may well go on developing in the way in which it adapted to the changing environment.

Unspecialized societies are better at adapting to their environments because they are more flexible, but they are «apt to be deficient in structural pattern, when viewed as a whole» (PR 100/153).

The yield varies enormously according to the varieties grown and how well the particular plants adapt to the local environment; we have grown stunted plants with as few as ten pods and large, bushy plants with fifty or more.

Well said... Sadly the excuses will keep coming along with a stubborn refusal by many fans to acknowledge that wenger is unable to adapt to a changed football environment... The man said he would stay at the club as long as he was moving it forward so if he has any integrity and honesty he would leave of his own accord... sadly all we will get is more existential drivel to justify his failure... Sad state of the club

There is no good time to be absent but for Sandro, settling into a new country and adapting to an alien football environment, this was the most untimely and unwelcome setback.

Week.4: your baby will be comfortable in their own surroundings now but they may be anxious when you take them into a new environments, such as another person's house or a childminders or nursery; babies are very good at adapting to different situations and in time they will get used to new settings; some babies are raring to go and love the excitement of new people and new places, while others are shy and get distressed once their mum or dad leaves them; if this is the case, try not to worry as they will get used to it much quicker than you think.

I have been reading a lot about attachment parenting pros and cons.I think that the pros are obvious.the cons however are if the parents decide they can not continue with for example co sleepng it is very hard on the child to then have to learn to sleep alone before they are confident enough to do so.for working parents the seperation to a carer is very hard and also helping parents to read the signs properly that their child wants to explore freely when they are used to protecting their little one.these are all things parents need to be aware of when adapting this form of parenting.I like it very much but I am a professional childcarer with additional childcare knowledge too and though parents always know their own child best risk for example is always an immotive subject to get across to parents that their little one needs to experience risk within of course a safe environment.

In general, well - rested kids can flex and adapt easily to new environments, routines and later sleep times on occasion.

You are not only providing a loving environment for them to grow up in, but you may very well be helping them adapt to the rigors of adult life.

One idea was that social progress was an indicator of how well adapted a person (or family, culture, etc.) was to their environment.

The characteristics of the home or the home occupants were more important for predicting occurrence than were climatic or regional factors, suggesting that home arthropod distributions can not reliably be predicted from outdoor arthropod predictions but may represent groups of species that are well adapted to human environments.

«We also note that smaller green areas tend to have greater similarity of species, since species that have adapted best to the urban environment tend to be selected.

So our challenge is to identify the best candidates that can adapt to our fast - paced, team - oriented research environment,» he says.