Sentences with phrase «process of adaptive evolution»

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While biological evolution of adaptive species may have occurred through a series of localized internal (or non - purposive) teleologies, the concrescence or bringing together of physical and biological processes corresponds to both a globally internalized (non-purposive) and globally externalized (purposive) teleology of the observable universe.

Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other, but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact, then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions.

This is the first example of adaptive evolution triggered by interspecies introgression in domesticated animals, which gave us a clue that introgression event between divergent species may be an important resource for evolutionary adaptation and could largely facilitate this process.

Across the large lakes of this region, the hybrid population then diversified in a process known as «adaptive radiation» (evolution of multiple new species adapted to different ecological niches).

My research interests are currently centered around hominin evolution and functional and adaptive morphology, but I am still in the process of discovering my ultimate PhD track.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

Cultural evolution is a process of accumulating adaptive behavior in individual brains and laboriously passing it on to each new generation by speech (remember, durable information storage only became available in the last 5ky).