SCI文献中与进化、适应有关的一些词汇及短语

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The receiver’s past history might bias neural processing strategies toward those that are merely sufficient to enhance the receiver’s evolutionary fitness but are not optimal engineering solutions.

提高适应性

Furthermore, tightly matched signal-receiver systems might have a selective disadvantage if they constrain the receiver’s ability to accommodate meaningful population variation.

选择优势，选择适应

Male and female frogs may call in defense of diurnal retreats that are not used for reproduction, but most vocalization by anurans has the potential to affect mating success and hence is subject to sexual selection

They suggested that males might have evolved a sword to exploit a preexisting preference for large body size.

进化出…（特征，结构），evolve后直接跟名词

Females should be under strong selection to avoid mating with males of other species.

受到选择

This sensory channel has become secondarily adapted for communication between the sexes in some moths.

为…而进化

Male acoustic courtship increases mating success in both ctenuchid and wax moths, and in some ctenuchids the males and females conduct an ultrasonic dialog .

成功率

I briefly review a controversial subject: how female choice in the past may have shaped present-day signals and preferences of females.