selective advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofselectiveandadvantage
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selective
adjective
uk/sɪˈlek.tɪv/us/səˈlek.t̬ɪv/
intentionally choosing some things and ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofselectiveandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It has been further hypothesized that penetrating in groups offers aselectiveadvantage.
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The model includes selective advantages of direct and maternal additive genetic effects, and also theselectiveadvantageof a common maternal environmental effect.
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Theselectiveadvantageof this phenomenon is that the overcrowded toads can leave a potentially lethal environment before it is too late.
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The mechanism would provide aselectiveadvantageto those organisms that possess it.
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Mutation-selection balance can be efficient in explaining the process of gene substitution only if one of these deleterious alleles acquires a relatively highselectiveadvantage.
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Therefore, this learning and problem-solving strategy guaranteesselectiveadvantagein environments that require fast adaptation.
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The programme allowed us to change theselectiveadvantageby modifying the average life-expectancy.
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It is important to note thatselectiveadvantageor neutrality of alleles is conditional, and is dependent on the particular environment.
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Moreover, thisselectiveadvantagewould hold even for a species that employed holophrastic utterances devoid of syntax.
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Rather, speaking confers "aselectiveadvantageon the speaker" (62), thereby setting in motion processes of natural selection.
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Such data would be important in understanding the dynamics to tapeworm growth and testing hypotheses relative to theselectiveadvantageof being '-at'.
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It is uniformly suspicious of anything that cannot be explained in terms of theselectiveadvantageof the unit of selection, that is, the gene.
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This study provides the first direct evidence of theselectiveadvantageof sociality in primates.
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Their assumption of 20 switches in a neural network, each individually inactive, but providing a strongselectiveadvantagewhen correctly coupled, is close to impossible.
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Any impairment of functional immunity is potentially ofselectiveadvantageto the parasite if it promotes transmission.
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This probably reflects aselectiveadvantageof the larvae, which we shall examine in more detail with further experiments.
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An ability to rapidly produce a barrier against such adverse conditions could provide aselectiveadvantage.
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This paper provides conclusive proof of this tendency, suggestingselectiveadvantagefrom bipolar genes and traits, provided that they do not culminate in disorder.
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At this time a higher proportion of female gametocytes acts as aselectiveadvantagethat favours mosquito infection.
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This sort of interaction could give operant principles theselectiveadvantagenecessary to become better accepted as powerful explanations for behavior.
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