For this reason, the evolutionary benefit of an individual and its descendants might lead to the extinction of the respective population, or the whole species.

Children invest 15% of their energy in playing ( p54) demonstrating their natural inclination and the evolutionary benefit.

As moult requires a considerable investment of energy, some significant evolutionary benefits to offset this are likely.

Female hunger may be an important part of sexual cannibalism, but females may also use it for their own evolutionary benefit.

Few experts dispute that impulsiveness pays off in some situations and, perhaps, had evolutionary benefits.

The physiological mechanisms and evolutionary benefits of this discrepancy are not fully understood.

Looking at the problem from the standpoint of the organism, expulsion was not an evolutionary benefit.

The behaviour has been of theoretical interest since it appears to be provide little evolutionary benefit to the feeding bird.

In the book, Hall described the evolutionary benefits of development from the womb to adolescence.

Dating and mating may be tricky, but there's an evolutionary benefit.