"trait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In biology, the process by which populations of organisms pass on advantageous traits from generation to generation is known as evolution.
- It has been observed that males have a higher aerobic scope than females, presumably because of sexual selection for a trait advantageous in prolonged combat.
- Major genes almost always have multiple effects (pleiotropism), which can simultaneously convey separate advantageous traits and disadvantageous traits upon the same organism.
- The dominant view in the literature states that female dominance is an advantageous trait given the high costs of reproduction and the scarcity of resources available.
- Choosing advantageous traits reduces the number of picks available, while choosing disadvantages increases them, but players cannot choose more than ten picks' worth of disadvantages.
- Meanwhile, selection does not guarantee that advantageous traits or alleles will become prevalent within a population.
- Tudge robustly defends evolutionary psychology's central premise that human behavior is shaped by natural selection, observing that traits once advantageous may be maladaptive today.
- By contrast, Reich argues that hybrids could play an important and positive role in speciation, introducing advantageous traits into a gene pool - including ours.
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