What is "evolutionarily"

Usage examples of "evolutionarily".

But that has not happened: mammals have remained evolutionarily committed to their characteristic reproductive strategy.

Similarly, animals whose lifestyles carry a high risk of accidental death are evolutionarily programmed to stint on repair and to age rapidly, even when living in the well-nourished safety of a laboratory cage.

Mice, subject to high rates of predation in the wild, are evolutionarily programmed to invest less in repair and to age more rapidly than similar-sized caged birds that in the wild can escape predators by flying.

Evidently, there was nothing physiologically inevitable about human female menopause, and there was nothing evolutionarily inevitable about it from the perspective of mammals in general.

Maynard Smith introduces is that of the evolutionarily stable strategy, an idea that he traces back to W.

We want to know whether either hawk or dove is an evolutionarily stable strategy.

However, as we shall now see, neither of these two strategies, hawk or dove, would in fact be evolutionarily stable on its own, and we should therefore not expect either of them to evolve.

I have mentioned are turned loose upon one another in a computer simulation, only one of them, retaliator, emerges as evolutionarily stable.

There is an evolutionarily stable strategy, which can be expressed as a mathematical formula, but in words what it amounts to is this.

In the war of attrition, telling lies is no more evolutionarily stable than telling the truth.

The gene pool will become an evolutionarily stable set of genes, defined as a gene pool that cannot be invaded by any new gene.

Most new genes that arise, either by mutation or reassortment or immigration, are quickly penalized by natural selection: the evolutionarily stable set is restored.

There is a transitional period of instability, terminating in a new evolutionarily stable set-a little bit of evolution has occurred.

But merit is judged on the basis of performance against the background of the evolutionarily stable set which is the current gene pool.

The vast majority of significant interactions between genes in the evolutionarily stable set-the gene pool-go on within individual bodies.