Sentences with phrase «most adaptive trait»

Thanks for visiting Dot Earth today and I hope you'll sift back for posts on enduring issues and concepts like the «population cluster bombs» that are the real peril from high fertility rates; evidence that humanity's amazing, sometimes - exasperating diversity is perhaps our species» most adaptive trait; and the idea that when numerical goals seem out of reach, there's much that can be accomplished by fostering traits in society that guarantee some progress.

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That tenet states that organisms best suited to their circumstances will be the ones most likely to reproduce, spreading their adaptive traits and driving out the competition.

Hot or not?A considerable amount of research has shown that women prefer more masculine traits (e.g., facial masculine traits like a strong jawline) when they are ovulating (and most fertile), but prefer less masculine traits (e.g., signs of less aggressive behaviors) when they are less fertile.5 Scientists believe that this change in preference is adaptive, as strongly masculine traits may signal that the man has good genes.