1. Directive 93/42/EEC on medical devices 1.1 Definition of medical devices a) devices - accessory The definition of the term medical device together with the definition of accessory is determinant for the delimitation of the field of application of Directive 93/42/EEC. A slight difference exists
Answers. It was Charles Darwin who highlighted the reproductive advantages of environmentally adaptive traits. One of the most important naturalists, he studied evolution and is the one who devised the theory that we and monkeys have the same ancestor.
3 Answers 3. A trait is said to be adaptive when it causes fitness to increase. Fitness is generally understood as the (relative) contribution to future generations in terms of offspring or genes. The trait is selected for by the environment and hence increases fitness. In the paper of Dey et al. this is the fitness of the parent birds.