By erasing those memories their adaptive function, to warn and protect individuals may be lost.

They say that dreams serve social and emotional adaptive functions.

The "Preservation and Protection" theory holds that sleep serves an adaptive function.

ER-β may also have an important role in adaptive function of the lung during pregnancy.

The adaptive function of the depression is to change behaviour to promote survival for someone who has been defeated.

A common view is that facial expressions initially served a non-communicative adaptive function.

The adaptive function of the compound facilitates natural insect resistance.

The argument that beauty corresponded to adaptive function was obviously stupid.

Flanagan claims that "dreams are evolutionary epiphenomena" and they have no adaptive function.

However, evolutionary psychologists believe dreams serve some adaptive function for survival.