Sentences with phrase «clear adaptive value»

«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.

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Although a clear scientific understanding on these matters will be long in coming, it is ignorance to say that religion is founded only on lies and its principles of faith have no adaptive or psychological value.
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.
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