preadaptation

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• This is because plant materials flourished or disappeared on the basis of their preadaptation—or lack thereof—to local conditions rather than because of on-site evolution or coevolution with sympatric species.

  Academic text (2013)

• Human social behavior arose with different preadaptations and may have been driven by a very different pattern of fundamental selection forces.

  Academic text (2008)

• The reduction of that distance is achieved by a particular set of preadaptations.

  Academic text (2008)

• The crabs take advantage of a preadaptation from their marine ancestors.

  Academic text (1990)

• The key preadaptation for eusociality in the social Hymenoptera is progressive provisioning, a behavior that in solitary species arises by individual direct selection.

  Academic text (2008)

• The preadaptations provide the phenotypic flexibility required for eusociality, as well as the key emergent traits arising from interactions of the group members.

  Academic text (2008)

• What Janzen (1985) meant by this remark is that local adaptation is often lacking in widespread species, but the species may still be widely adapted because of ecological fitting, the chance preadaptation to a new habitat.

  Academic text (2013)

• Human intervention in the biosphere has vastly enlarged open habitats that, in turn, have favored plants known for their invasive qualities and preadaptation to disturbed sites.

  Academic text (1991)

• Certain features in birds, like their beaks, often serve as preadaptations that help them thrive in diverse environments.

• In evolutionary biology, traits such as camouflage in insects can act as preadaptations for future survival needs.

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