"population" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This population probably diverged from mainland rice rats about 2000 years ago.
- It has been particularly useful in understanding how populations diverge and how reproductive barriers arise.
- Isolated populations can diverge more quickly if they have differing resources, however, as they adapt through natural selection to their different environments.
- Studies of mitochondrial DNA conducted within the continent of Africa have shown that the indigenous population has diverged into three divergent main lines of descent.
- According to the anthropologist Henry Harpending, human populations are actually diverging from one another, as opposed to melding into a single population.
- Ring species provide important evidence of evolution: they illustrate what happens over time as populations genetically diverge.
- Although suitable habitat is distributed continentally, it is discontinuous, and the separate populations of this non-migratory species have diverged to form distinct regional subspecies.
- The two populations diverged as access to other genetic sources were accessible to one population and not the other.
- After the populations had diverged over many generations, the groups were again mixed; it was observed that the flies would mate only with others from their adapted population.
- Coyne and Orr remark that populations may diverge in male signals because of intrasexual selection (competition among males), and that female mate preference may follow.
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