Sentences with phrase «survival advantage by»

It is integral to evolution as cooperating organisms gain survival advantage by a quid pro quo between them.

The boost in genetic information may have given the paramecium a survival advantage by allowing for more beneficial mutations, which drive evolution.

For example, the famous Galápagos Islands finches named for Charles Darwin picked up survival advantages by interbreeding with other finch species (SN: 3/7/15, p. 7).

Not exact matches

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Complexity such as this, according to Darwin, evolves by small imperceptible changes, each one of which must produce a survival advantage or else it will die out.

Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, proceeded stepwise, in very small increments, each successive step conferring slightly more survival advantage and thus increasing the chances of survival and reproduction for the organism, ensuring that the advantage is passed on and further increased by future increments.

There is a psychological sense of purpose in individual human mind, which likely evolved by natural selection as a property of the human brain which gives advantage to the survival of the human race.

The incentives created by the way grant dollars flow to and through faculty members» labs encourage them, as rational actors, to follow the course that maximizes their advantage in the fierce competition for professional survival.

Steve: Genetic drift refers to the fact that just by chance, some small percentage of Neandertals had this prominent ridge and then they became the progenitors of the population so it got passed on even though there was not any particular selection pressure, any particular survival advantage, to having it.

By identifying the molecular signals emitted through the soil by friendly fungi, the protein enables a plant to «roll out the red carpet» for cell colonisation by the fungi, and all the survival advantages this mutually - beneficial relationship brings — the fungi feeds minerals such as phosphate into plant cells in return for sugar extractioBy identifying the molecular signals emitted through the soil by friendly fungi, the protein enables a plant to «roll out the red carpet» for cell colonisation by the fungi, and all the survival advantages this mutually - beneficial relationship brings — the fungi feeds minerals such as phosphate into plant cells in return for sugar extractioby friendly fungi, the protein enables a plant to «roll out the red carpet» for cell colonisation by the fungi, and all the survival advantages this mutually - beneficial relationship brings — the fungi feeds minerals such as phosphate into plant cells in return for sugar extractioby the fungi, and all the survival advantages this mutually - beneficial relationship brings — the fungi feeds minerals such as phosphate into plant cells in return for sugar extraction.

When the researchers broke the results down by age group, they found that most of the female survival advantage comes from differences in infant mortality.

The phenomenon occurs in nature by a variety of mechanisms, but all increase a gene's ability to permeate a population quickly and thoroughly, even if it doesn't carry any survival advantage.

In response to Pender, we have postulated that the mutation that led to the loss of our ability to make vitamin C may have conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors by, again, increasing our ability to store fat.

Notwithstanding the survival advantage offered by sorafenib, a great margin of improvement may be envisaged particularly for nonresponders, as well as for those patients who experience escape from treatment efficacy.

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Schattschneider says «Our survival depends on our ability to judge things by their results and our ability to establish relations of confidence and responsibility so we can take advantage of what other people know.»

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Research by Raineki, Moriceau, and Sullivan describes the neuro - biology of «infant attachment to an abusive caregiver» and they link the increased motivation to bond to the abusive parent to be the result of the survival advantage provided to children by the attachment bond.

These attachment behaviors are natural responses to the threat of losing these survival advantages imparted by the primary caregiver.