sexual selection

sexual selection什么意思,sexual selection翻译

基本解释

na.: 【生】性选择
网络: 性择

英汉解释

• 【生物学】性选择,雌性淘汰

例句

• Sexual selection would certainly have been a powerful driving force behind evolution in northern Europeans.

  迁徙到北欧以后的演化中，性选择毫无无疑成为更为强大的推动力。

• "We suggest the mane"s evolution is the result of sexual selection, " said West, a doctoral candidate whose dissertation led to the paper.

  著文指导该项研究的博士候选人瓦斯特说：“我们认为鬃毛的进化是性别选择的必然结果”。

• Researchers have tended to consider human sexual selection through the lens of the female"s choice of her mate.

  研究者往往通过女性对其配偶的选择来考虑人类的性选择。

• Consider the vast antlers of the north American bull elk: they"re the result of sexual selection balanced by other selective pressures.

  想一想北美麋鹿的例子。麋鹿有一对巨大的鹿角，这是择偶和其他选择性压力互相平衡的结果。

• His shimmering train of feathers tipped with eye-shaped spots ranks among the most cited examples of what Darwin called sexual selection.

  雄孔雀那闪烁着光泽的带有眼状斑的尾羽，是达尔文的性选择理论的最典型例证。

• This is curious because the idea of female choice was such an integral (albeit controversial) component of his concept of sexual selection.

  这是难以理解的，因为雌性选择是他关于性选择这样一个概念中不可分割的组成部分（尽管是有争议的）。

• That was a momentous observation. We realized that the eggs kicked off the entire sexual selection process.

  我们意识到这些卵开启了整个择性过程。

• In terms of sexual selection, there"s definitely something going on around symmetry.

  在性伴侣的选择上，人类肯定是围绕着对称进行的。

• Some biologists go so far as to blame sexual selection for the conspicuous consumption that threatens humanity"s future.

  一些生物学家甚至走得更远，他们把“显眼的消费将毁灭人类的未来”归为性选择的罪过。

• But if music is functional, it may be that sexual selection and social selection have actually given each other a helping hand.

  但若音乐果真是一种工具，可能是性选择和社会选择相互作用的结果。