reproductive advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreproductiveandadvantage
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reproductive
adjective
uk/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us/ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.t̬ɪv/
relating to the process ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofreproductiveandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At that stage, areproductiveadvantagewould accrue to any subgroup in the population with a syntax, affording reliable interpretation of such strings.
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While these data are intriguing, the assumption that social, political, or creative advantage automatically translates intoreproductiveadvantageis erroneous.
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The latter case may confer areproductiveadvantagefor the plant by increasing its spectrum of potential pollinators.
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While this milder phenotype may have featured significantly in the emergence of human culture, there is little evidence that it conferred areproductiveadvantage.
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The evidence is not convincing that schizotypal individuals have areproductiveadvantage.
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To us, this suggests areproductiveadvantagefor farming males over indigenous hunter-gatherer males during the switch from hunting and gathering, to farming.
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Multiple theories exist about why bipedalism conferred areproductiveadvantage.
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Such a decoupling would provide a significantreproductiveadvantagethrough increased pollinator visitation and siring success.
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For males,reproductiveadvantagegoes to the more dominant males.
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The theory states that organisms which learned to fear environmental threats faster had a survival andreproductiveadvantage.
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Two traits may be found together in nature, but one can play a causal role in producing areproductiveadvantage, when the other does not.
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One of the possible purposes behind this mechanism is to increase thereproductiveadvantageof females that do not have to care for young, allowing them more opportunities to spawn.
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In addition, males have reproductive advantages over smaller males.
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Females in higher altitudes were found to be larger because they were carrying more oocytes and larger ovaries, which gave them areproductiveadvantageover the smaller females.
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The considerable reproductive advantages of bearing smallbrained offspring motivated me to look once more at any universal selection pressures on the perinatal context that could directly affect developmental timing.
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The persistence of particular forms is ' explained ' by their survival and reproductive advantages, but the evidence for those reproductive advantages consists of the persistence of the forms in question.
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It also leads to the question of which parasites are the most likely to generate a rare advantage that is sufficient to overcome the reproductive advantages of asexuals when common.
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First, tying the origins of human behaviour to hunter-gather reproductive advantages is more likely to inspire speculation and amusement than satisfying resolutions, particularly for the law.
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