The phrase "a conscious selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a deliberate choice made with awareness or intention.
Example: "The artist's work reflects a conscious selection of colors that evoke strong emotions."
Alternatives: "an intentional choice" or "a deliberate selection".
Artificial selection induces changes through two possible evolutionary mechanisms: a) conscious selection through selective breeding based on target characters; or b) unconscious selection through isolation within a controlled human environment [ 60].
We made a conscious selection of different phenotypes to avoid an unnaturally uniform patient population for this pilot study.
According to Peters, defining public issues such as PI as "policy problems" helps to "explicate the relationships between problems and instrument choice" [ 15], and may thus lead to a "conscious selection of instruments, as opposed to their selection merely on the basis of custom, familiarity and institutional inertia" [ 15].
A cognitive forcing strategy is "a deliberate, conscious selection of a particular strategy in a specific situation to optimize decisonmaking and avoid error" (Croskerry, 2003b: 115).
Therefore, the control populations experienced all conditions similar to the selected populations except that they were not under any conscious selection for the timing of emergence.
That is sexual selection, but we don't automatically assume that it involves a conscious choice.
For all we know this tiny pod could be the environmentally conscious selection of a fashionable urbanite seeking to reduce their carbon footprint, or the thoughtless impulse of a student who only plans to use it as a base and occasional "crash-pad", or even the clandestine choice of a relatively well-off unfaithful spouse who works nearby.
