Sentences with phrase «evolutionary advantage»
"Evolutionary advantage" refers to a trait or characteristic that gives a living organism a better chance of surviving, reproducing, and passing on its genes to the next generation. It helps the organism adapt to its environment and increases its chances of having offspring that can thrive in that environment as well. Full definition
The scientists challenge the hypothesis of evolutionary advantage of modern humans on basis of dietary choice.
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That other evolutionary advantage, the team members explained, could be behavioral.
It remains to be seen whether human intelligence is actually a long - term evolutionary advantage.
So what evolutionary advantage could schizophrenia - related genes bring to people who have some of the genes but not the disease?
It has no known evolutionary advantage that might account for its existence, at least none that is agreed upon.
This may provide evolutionary advantages in terms of optimising the balance between the stability and flexibility of consciousness.
«It would stand as a tremendous evolutionary advantage for children to be able to quickly identify sources of calories,» says Robin Dando, researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Food Sciences in the Department of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University.
Wolfgang Stuppy writes that this gives fruiting plants tremendous evolutionary advantages over «naked seed» plants, or gymnosperms, like conifers and Ginkgos.
Clare Wilson explores possible evolutionary advantages of consciousness (18 May, p 38).
Elsewhere in the animal kingdom, the instinct to hoard offers clear evolutionary advantages.
Clear signals of fertility and the willingness to do something about it bring major evolutionary advantages: ripe eggs lead to healthier pregnancies, which leads to more of your genes in succeeding generations, which is what evolution is all about.
Both creative reverie and focused attention offered evolutionary advantages, and in Hiss's reading, the state of Deep Travel that can settle on us while in transit, even if walking just a few blocks, is an echo of those early advantages.
This is a brilliant evolutionary advantage of mammalian lactation, but it doesn't really apply in today's developed societies, where most children have ready access to more than enough calories and nutrients.
These include aromas produced by plants, a logical evolutionary advantage for our ancestors seeking fruits.
The miraculous recovery of a coral and the gargantuan range of a lichen may both result from the surprising evolutionary advantages their «alternative» lifestyles give them
«Despite the overwhelming evidence linking dietary salt to disease in humans, the potential evolutionary advantage of storing so much salt in the body has not been clear,» says senior study author Jens Titze, who studies the link between sodium metabolism and disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Some organisms have taken evolutionary advantage to a whole new level, achieving success by insidiously — and still quite mysteriously — changing the behavior of another animal against its will.
They turned up two more sets of genomic regions, or tracts, that showed hybridization events; one appears to predate the colonization of Europe by M. m. domesticus, and the other affected the subjects» sense of smell — a definite evolutionary advantage for mice looking for food or mates.
Rice biologist Michael Kohn and computer scientist Luay Nakhleh reported that two species of mice from various locations in Europe and Africa have shared genetic code to their apparent evolutionary advantage at least three times over the centuries.
By providing yeast with a way to respond to fluctuating environments, the prion switch may offer a significant evolutionary advantage.
So perhaps we should stop predicting the emergence of an illiterate, story-less generation whose only evolutionary advantage will be double - jointed Xbox thumbs.
The crux is this: psychopaths have certain evolutionary advantages.
Finally, for those hoping for fame or other great things from their offspring, I tweeted @crossborderbio about a cool post by my wife (and editor of the Cross-Border Biotech Blog) about evolutionary advantages for sensitive kids.
On the possible evolutionary advantage of consciousness (18 May, p 38), three ideas were offered: it allows us to «chunk» information to assist with problem - solving; to understand other people's minds; and as a requirement to reflect on experiences before we can talk about them.
On the possible evolutionary advantage of consciousness (18 May, p 38), three ideas were offered: it allows us to «chunk»...
Scar tissue has a clear evolutionary advantage: The body is quickly sealed off from bacterial infection, and the injured creature has a better chance of surviving.
While the specialized adaptations of our hands have long been assumed as a major evolutionary advantage, the human hand is less developed in terms of evolution than that of a chimp, having changed little from the hands of the last common ancestor shared with our simian cousins millions of years ago, scientists report.
However, another possibility is that bearded ladies have some other evolutionary advantage that keeps their numbers high within populations.»
There's an evolutionary advantage to this.
That stems in part from the presence in our brains of a well - developed frontal lobe, an evolutionary advantage we hold over the rest of the animal kingdom.
I have held the belief that religion was invented by man as a social tool, one that created an evolutionary advantage for the believer and leveraged our brains structures that support the ability to imagine and envision people who are not present.
Begin able to understand and deal with facts may not be such an evolutionary advantage any more.
Religion has that effect, as it replaces natural instinctive moral code (the evolutionary advantage of not killing each other) with a long list of made - up moral code.
One can argue that it didn't happen at the same time, but that over millions of years these mutations developed independently and fell into place on their own... but I see no evolutionary advantage of having wiring without sensors or processing, or sensors without wiring or processing, or processing without sensors and wiring.
From a scientific viewpoint this might have provided an evolutionary advantage.
How would having, say, just the wiring mutation be an evolutionary advantage to the organism if it didn't have the eyes or processing ability in place to develop a function that would allow it to thrive over the common organism with no mutation?
Oh, but wait... how can religion give an evolutionary advantage if religion states that evolution doesn't exist....
Anyway RM - in answer to your question, a meme is a belief or attitude or a form of social behaviour which exists for no obvious genetic purpose, brings no evolutionary advantage, but nevertheless spreads throughout society with alarming rapidity.
A small maternal pelvis makes it easier for a woman to walk and run, providing her with an evolutionary advantage.
Apparently it's an evolutionary advantage to have had a few practise runs before being chased by a real sabre - tooth tiger.