evolutionary pressure

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evolutionary
adjective
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/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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pressure
noun
uk
/ˈpreʃ.ər/us
/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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Evolutionarypressurefor folding to a stable structure may impart en-passant crystal-like group symmetry properties to the ground state of the system.
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The reason for this breadth is probably theevolutionarypressureto minimize the total number of ganglion cells.
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A central thesis of the target article is thatevolutionarypressurecan cause certain physical characteristics of the world to become internalized by the representational system.
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Theevolutionarypressureto inactivate.
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The largest effects ofevolutionarypressureon most enzymes evidently have involved lowering the activation barrier, and not modifying the transmission factor or particular motions of the protein.
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Necator, on the other hand, with a putatively lower metabolism, might not have undergone such extensiveevolutionarypressureto match its digestive proteases with a wide range of substrate proteins.
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Under these conditions there was less photodestruction of folate, and so theevolutionarypressurestopping lighter-skinned gene variants from surviving was reduced.
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Scavengers are at risk of becoming roadkill themselves, and are subject toevolutionarypressureto be alert to traffic hazards.
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This behaviour is thought to have provided anevolutionarypressurefor trilobites to roll up, to avoid being flexed until they snapped.
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Life in the trees may have requiredevolutionarypressurethat resulted in a larger brain.
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Genes can thus be detected by comparing the genomes of related species to detect thisevolutionarypressurefor conservation.
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Researchers have suggested that early hominids were thus underevolutionarypressureto increase their capacity to create and use tools.
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This may indicate thatevolutionarypressureresulted in the development of the cerebellum as a redundant fear-mediating circuit to enhance survival.
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The detection by predators and competing individuals of same species provides a strongevolutionarypressure.
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There would be a strongevolutionarypressureto adapt quickly or become extinct.
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So humans must have been underevolutionarypressureto adopt a different mechanism.
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Theevolutionarypressureof parasitic castrators on a potential host population is in the direction of resistance to being infected rather than on post-infection recovery.
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This is distinct from the conjugation methods used by bacterial plasmids underevolutionarypressure, with important consequences.
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Under these conditions there was less photodestruction of folate and so theevolutionarypressureworking against the survival of lighter-skinned gene variants was reduced.
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It is suggested that suchevolutionarypressureled to greater spatial skills in comparison to female meadow voles and monogamous male pine voles.
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