Sentences with phrase «by natural selection»

Using DNA collected from remains as a genetic blueprint, scientists aim to engineer extinct traits — traits that evolved by natural selection over thousands of years — into living organisms.

A team of scientists has developed an algorithm that can accurately pinpoint, in large regions of the human genome, mutations favored by natural selection.

Building on this idea, some of his colleagues argued that language is an adaptation shaped by natural selection, just like eyes and wings.

There is just evolution; genetic mutations driven by natural selection.

Why hasn't it been eliminated by natural selection?

The breed evolved through the centuries by natural selection for its herding and guarding abilities.

Theory, evolution by natural selection explains how all life came to be in its present form.

We can not prove that all current diversity of life was produced by evolution by natural selection because that would require a time machine for direct observation.

The functional portion of the genome is described as that which has a selected - effect function, that is, a function that arose through and is maintained by natural selection.

The size of a butterfly's wings compared to its body may be determined more by natural selection than by genetics.

This indicates that parallel adaptation to similar environments may lead to the same result by natural selection, yet this evolution can proceed along different evolutionary genetic routes.

We started with the fairly standard evolutionary psychology view that the mind consists of a large stock of modules, each crafted by natural selection to do certain jobs.

The colony as a whole is acted upon by natural selection, making it an individual in the sense of the process of evolution.

Today we will explore the idea of evolution by natural selection and will simulate how a population can change over time.

After all, such successful survival strategies would evolve by natural selection.

Any prey that can boost its defenses further will, in turn, be favored by natural selection.

We are just rather clever apes with a brain shaped by natural selection to see us through this messy world.

It should be kept in mind that evolution is driven by natural selection, that is, it is driven by certain members of the population dying before reaching reproductive age.

Some are harmful and are likely to be eliminated by natural selection — by death of the embryo, for instance.

Charles Darwin said evolution occurs by natural selection in the presence of continuous variation, but he never proved the occurrence of natural selection in nature.

The findings thus support the idea that SSB may be prevalent in one sex because the genes regulating the behaviour are preserved by natural selection through their benefits in the opposite sex, pointing to a general mechanism maintaining multiple forms of SSB across a wide variety of animals.

There is a psychological sense of purpose in individual human mind, which likely evolved by natural selection as a property of the human brain which gives advantage to the survival of the human race.

As for Darwin, Wolfe presents the greatest biologist in history as a petty thief who stole credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection from Alfred Russell Wallace, who was (Wolfe alleges) screwed over by the British gentlemen's club conspirators who rigged the system to give Darwin credit for priority.

Wallace — who came up with the concept of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin and prompted Darwin to publish his own work — had the house built in 1872 in Grays, UK, according to the website outlining the sale.

Here's what you need to know about these two breeds before they hit the show floor: The Coton de Tulear • Developed by natural selection in Madagascar.

This analogy gets closer to what is meant by natural selection of chance variations, though it still does not do justice to the full picture of Darwinian evolution.

Developed by natural selection on Madagascar, the «cottony texture» of the white coat, rectangular silhouette and convex topline defines the breed.

How life evolves is largely determined by natural selection (note the word «selection).

Comparing the two types of mutations allowed the team to spot genes that have had changes favoured by natural selection while taking into account the background mutation rate.

Man does not evolve by natural selection alone.

There have been several thousand magnetic reversals since the evolution of animal phyla about 600 million years ago, so any creatures that experience seriously detrimental effects when a flip occurs have probably been removed by natural selection.

If you say evolution occurs by natural selection, it looks scientific compared with saying God created everything.

The comparison with other sequenced genomes revealed that over the course of great ape evolution, about 90 % of the genome has been influenced by natural selection.

Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, the so - called father of animal geography, formulated his ideas on evolution by natural selection while observing and collecting wildlife in the islands of Southeast Asia.

Some of those excesses have been curbed by natural selection through the demise of the two market leaders, regulation via the courts and a degree of industry self - regulation.

Charles Darwin, English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the...

Biological evolution is genetic mutations sorted by natural selection.