evolutionary advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofevolutionaryandadvantage
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evolutionary
adjective
uk/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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A constant prevalence rate in the face of reduced fecundity has caused some to argue that anevolutionaryadvantageexists in unaffected relatives.
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Theevolutionaryadvantageof consciousness lies in the ability to avoid inflexible behavior patterns (based mostly on genetic learning) that animals follow.
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Relatively large size at birth would appear to be anevolutionaryadvantageand it has even been suggested that multiple births in humans indicate atavism.
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Anevolutionaryadvantagethat is common to vision, audition, and somatic sensation is also likely to be quantitative rather than qualitative in nature.
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These genes apparently have had anevolutionaryadvantage.
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Theevolutionaryadvantageof reduced competition from other males is clear.
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A population of higher heritability and variability is considered to have anevolutionaryadvantageover a population of lower heritability and variability.
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Assimilation and accommodation play an integral role in cognition, and veridical adjustment to the actual geometrico-physical world that we live in does confer anevolutionaryadvantage.
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Corballis admits that he cannot explain how population-level lateralization for vocalization might develop or what sort ofevolutionaryadvantageit might confer.
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Shepard's focus on internalized constraints seems driven in part by the idea that such principles convey anevolutionaryadvantage.
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Hurford found that in the population of artificial agents, it was advantageous to acquire language early, but retaining the ability to acquire language conferred noevolutionaryadvantage.
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Once fertility has been lost or reduced, the host gains much lessevolutionaryadvantageby surviving the parasite than it would have by avoiding it.
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The diversity of jawed vertebrates may indicate theevolutionaryadvantageof a jawed mouth.
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To keepevolutionaryadvantage, in the sense of wealth and survival, you must persuade and not be persuaded.
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Seeking high calorie food conveys a clearevolutionaryadvantage.
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The recurrence and spread of routine trichromacy in howler monkeys suggests that it provides them with anevolutionaryadvantage.
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This brought themevolutionaryadvantageby allowing a decline in egg size.
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The ability of an animal to relate a present complex scene to its own previous history of learning conferred an adaptiveevolutionaryadvantage.
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Butterflies may also have takenevolutionaryadvantageof chromostereopsis in developing distinctive eye patterns, which are presented on their wings.
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