| 释义 |
survival valuenoun [mass noun]The property of an ability, faculty, or characteristic that makes individuals possessing it more likely to survive, thrive, and reproduce: everyone knows that a bad smell is of survival value to the skunk...- Evolutionary naturalism assumes that our cognitive faculties developed as they did because they had some survival value or reproductive advantage.
- We did not consider an individual survival value to be significantly different from the mean if the confidence intervals overlapped the mean.
- However, pessimism as much as optimism has survival value or natural selection would have removed it from our heritage long ago.
|