Sentence examples for accidental selection from inspiring English sources

However, accidental selection by breeding populations of study organisms in captivity could lead to unnatural decreases or increases in among-individual variation or mean levels of behavior quite different from that expressed in the wild (McDougall et al. 2006; Archard and Braithwaite 2010).

As on the Kinect, that waiting period is presumably to avoid accidental selections.

It led to a few accidental selections here and there, but.

However, this may be spurious due to accidental positive selection on educational background, as shown in Table 3, or a state-specific component that happened to correlate with the unemployment rates.

As I discuss (with tongue firmly in cheek) in my forthcoming book The Accidental Species, sexual selection could explain other things too, such as the prominence of female breasts, the size of the penis, and even why we are bipeds.

Another possibility is that the observation in Drosophila, while seemingly having an attractive explanation, is an accidental consequence of selection on translational optimality and splice optimality happening to go in opposite directions.

That is, the biological free-rider is an accidental concomitant of selection-for, of adaptation.

We surmised that this impression reflects an accidental bias in the selection of monitoring sites towards those with prevailing vertical hydrological flowpaths, rather than a tight causal link between vegetation cover and erosion alone.

He asserts (p. 9) that the reductionist account of life faces "problems of probability… both with respect to the evolution of life forms through accidental mutation and natural selection and with respect to the formation from dead matter of physical systems capable of such evolution.

The evolution of genes influencing ageing is strongly dependent on, and in fact may be largely an accidental by-product of, selection of other LHTs [ 47].

Hypothetically, in durable safe environments with low accidental death rates, natural selection may favor a "decelerator" of MTOR, slowing down aging after development.