Perhaps evolution favored pandas that relied on bamboo because the grass is available year-round.
Why evolution may not always favor complexity.
Social scientists suspect such emotions are part of women's nature, feelings that evolution may have favored because they helped women bond with one another and work cooperatively.
In this he later became an implacable foe of the social Darwinists, who argued that evolution favors the preservation of the species, not the individual.
Even if evolution in a sense favors good genes, it has designed us to pursue rather more familiar ends.
While identified as entities, genes exist in groups because evolution favors cooperation.
Over time, evolution has favored those plants having the natural protective insecticide.
But evolution has favored organisms with machinery able to do something about this problem.
Adams's doubt that history led anywhere in particular was an antidote to the sentimental belief that evolution favored democratic states and liberal societies.
Then, he said, scientists can ask whether evolution favors mechanisms that are easy to handle with molecular computations?