Sentences with phrase «pass on the genes»

Evolution works through passing on genes optimally, and not passing on genes at all while killing yourself 4.

That doesn't change the fact that an animal born with an abnormality which makes it more complex but also better suited to survive would live to pass on that gene to it's children and slowly to the entire species.

Or... as nature dictates, you would want pass on your genes successfully without even realizing why it is you are protective of your offspring.

After all, it's survival of the fittest, and if I kill you, then there's more food for me, and more opportunity for me to pass on my genes to the next generation.

The real point of evolution is HOW these differences allow the individual to have more success at passing on thier genes (getting laid) which in turn creates lineage of those traits.

If a mutation is beneficial, it enables an organism to pass on the gene, and evolution occurs.

The reason we are hard - wired for lust, is to pass on our genes.

An organism that is more suited to its environment is more likely to survive and pass on its genes.

A slightly faster lion, taller giraffe or better sighted hawk is more likely than its slower, shorter or more myopic brethren to live long enough to breed and pass on its genes.

not exploding and killing themselves off without passing on genes.

That we can randomly evolve over billions of years and the only thing our senses are really made to do is to help us pass on our genes to the next generation, but we are going to trust them to reason — with no other appeal except well — they seem to work?

If the young are threatened, evolution was claimed to make more of them to pass on the genes, or make them bigger, better....

If a organism can pass on its genes to 3 (counting both parents) or more offspring that survive by sacrificing itself then the sacrifice is beneficial, is it not?

So fat shaped beaks dies out on the Island with small seed and the thin beaked Finches survives and passed on their genes and vice versa, so the thin beaked finches dies out where larger seed were available because they could not grasp them!

Researchers believe that the pheromones given off by the top of a baby's head disable our aggressive impulses, making it more likely that babies will survive to pass on their genes.

OK, you know that you pass on your genes to your children.

Besides, there's a genetic aspect: a woman who doesn't survive her first birth isn't going to pass on her genes to any daughters, so women with pelvic abnormalities, tendencies to PPH or pre-eclampsia get winnowed out over time.

C - section allows baby to live, live baby grows up, reproduces, passes on genes that contribute to large size.

Both parents want (in an evolutionary sense) to pass on their genes, but that's all they really agree on.

Instead the skull indicates that modern humans met and interbred with Neanderthals in Israel, only to later pass on their genes to the rest of the world.

A recent study in Ireland, for example, has uncovered evidence that famine survivors preferentially pass on a gene that helps the body store fat.

Choosing an unhealthy partner is not the best way to pass on your genes.

However, Pafilis is puzzled by how it affects the males» chances of passing on their genes to the next generation.

If you think evolution is just about individuals passing on their genes to offspring, get set for a radical reweaving of the web of life — and finance

Much of other animals» intraspecies violence is about competition for mates and the chance to pass on genes.

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

«You can pass on your genes by having one or two children and investing a lot into their well - being.

But bacteria can pass on the genes for antibiotic resistance, so any source of resistance is concerning.

Within a species, when some individuals have a trait that aids their survival — such as a blunt beak that allows them to crack open tough seed coverings — they will pass on the genes for that trait to their offspring, whereas individuals with pointed beaks will have died.

«With this breakthrough we now have a working technology whereby anyone can pass on their genes to a child by using just a few skin cells,» he says.

Staying at home to rear sisters and nieces is an evolutionary trade - off, because a helper would be certain to pass on some genes, but only those she shares with the queen.

After all, the pups are not theirs and so will not pass on their genes.

The payoff for belting: The most voluble nightingales probably have an easier time finding a mate and passing on their genes, he says.

Thus, condensin is crucial to passing on genes correctly.

So, desires for those masculine characteristics, which are thought to have been markers of high genetic quality in our male ancestors, don't last all month — just the few days in a woman's cycle when she is most likely to pass on genes that, eons ago, might have increased the odds of her offspring surviving and reproducing.

At any given time, a troop of baboons typically contains one or two newly arrived males that have left the group where they were born in search of opportunities to reproduce and pass on their genes elsewhere.

All the birds in cages that produce lots of eggs — regardless of which individuals are doing the egg - laying — get to reproduce and pass on their genes to the next generation.

Among males, only the most dominant pass on their genes.

Natural selection seems not to have pushed our life spans to the limit, perhaps because from an evolutionary point of view, passing on genes to the next generation is what matters, not a long and biologically useless old age.

Basically, the idea holds that the male with the most effective strategy for getting a female to mate with him — attractive plumage, for instance — is most likely to pass on his genes to the next generation.

Old men can also pass on their genes by mating with younger women.

The findings suggest that because children born to older fathers tend to have more potentially harmful genetic mutations than those with younger dads, they're less likely to pass on their genes.

A female that can persuade the community's males to be nice to her kids stands a better chance of passing on her genes.

The shift was driven by competition — because the smaller - beaked finches did not have to compete for larger seeds with another finch species, they were more likely to live to pass on their genes, according to the study in the journal Science.

Another person, a young woman of 28, came to the researchers saying she wanted to have children but was afraid of passing on the gene.

So in the scenario, those who managed to mate before dying passed on genes for belligerence and bravery to their descendents.

By mating with as many females as possible, males maximise the number of offspring they produce, and thus their chances of passing on their genes.

For many species, particularly if the breeding season is short, promiscuity is the best way to pass on your genes.

«This allows them to maximize their mating opportunities, which increases their chances for passing on their genes.»

As Charles Darwin explained, natural selection results in the fittest individuals for a given environment surviving to breed and pass on their genes to the next generation.