The term can be taken as referring, first, to Darwin's own account of selection for moral conscience and moral behavior in human beings and their precursors in other animals.
For instance, previous research on Mexican earnings assimilation is based on repeated cross-sectional data, and does not adjust for potential bias on account of selection in immigration and emigration (see discussion in Borjas 1994 3.
In general, the recommended approach is to try to make the bias due to selection differences as small as possible by making the nonequivalent groups as similar as possible, and to report the results of multiple analyzes and comparisons that take account of selection differences using a variety of assumptions about the nature of their effects.
Perhaps the most controversial thesis to come out of these programs is the thesis that it is more natural, a la biology, for stepfathers to abuse their stepchildren than their genetic children on account of selection pressures that weighed on our Pleistocene ancestors.
The importance of heterozygosity in reproductive success may differ between years on account of fluctuating selection, countervailing selection for different fitness components or frequency-dependent selection [19], [27].
The rhetoric of the coy female and the promiscuous male is decreasing but is still common among many accounts of sexual selection.
Mayr's (1982) facts and inferences are similar to accounts of natural selection in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013).
In contrast with traditional accounts of natural selection that focus on heredity, Griesemer's analysis of reproduction processes attempts to integrate heredity and development in a single conceptual scheme.
It has been unclear whether optimal experimental design accounts of data selection may offer insight into evidence acquisition tasks in which the learner's beliefs change greatly during the course of learning.
In predictive coding accounts of action selection (active inference), dopamine is thought to encode the precision (gain) of prediction errors that induce and maintain a particular response set (Friston et al. 2012; Galea et al. 2012).
