Reproductive adaptation

... level allows for an "exaptation" phenomenon that combines the adaptations of multiple systems for new "exaptations" that are ... say, are likely to puff out their chests as a sign of dominance and reproductive virility. I say both of these statements are completely bogus. ...

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... that natural selection (differential breeding success) was the CAUSE of adaptation and evolution....that any variation that arose was just a crazy ... frequency of the more prolific type will increase. The difference in reproductive capability is called natural selection. Natural selection is ...

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... enhance their probability of becoming socially dominant and thus more reproductively successful; female reproductive success is much less dependent ... and "dialectical processes". Gould notwithstanding, Darwinian adaptation is the way evolution works and the mechanism on which working ...

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... as a first step, remove the previous male's packet (there's a lot of adaptation toward both preventing packet removal - like the redback do - ... which is rare, it's unusual for males in any species to have only one reproductive opportunity in their lifetimes.

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... frequencies for most of the world's population, is really a pan-human adaptation to living in malarial regions. The advantages conferred by the ... conferred by malarial resistance are counteracted by the decline in reproductive success from producing children having the illness. Sickle-cell ...

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