survival value
Americannoun
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"In the short timespan, sometimes this kind of behavior, if it's directly related to food or some survival value, it may very well fade away fairly quickly. We'll see whether that happens or not."
From Salon • May 14, 2024
It is possible ASI could teach humans the survival value of being held immediately accountable for our freedoms and actions.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
The Neandertal DNA in the H. sapiens genome today persists because it conveys survival value of some kind.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2019
It’s about adding survival value to the things you already use and love versus loading up on stuff you’ll only use if the world ends.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2018
The imagination is important, as it allows us to conceive of all kinds of possibilities in the future and to understand the past in a way that has real survival value.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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