survival advantage

In the wild the percentage of mosquitoes exposed to the malaria parasite is too small for resistance to be a major survival advantage.

Although researchers saw a similar effect in women as in men, married women ultimately had no survival advantage over single women.

We may not like worrying, but, so the theory goes, there must be some survival advantage in it.

This study shows you can have a survival advantage with a virus containing specific genetic signatures associated with lower replication.

Those who could temporarily rear up on two feet could get more food, and thus had a survival advantage over those who couldn't.

It stuck, because natural selection favors new traits that give their owners a survival advantage.

A standing animal can see predators from farther away, another survival advantage.

But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past.

If all these "negative" emotions have survived the test of evolution, then perhaps they offer some kind of survival advantage, Forgas says.

In the study, the largest consumers of "white" meat from poultry and fish had a slight survival advantage.

But now you have a lot of standing animals. A standing animal can see predators from farther away, another survival advantage.

No clear evidence of a survival advantage with preoperative radiation