The phrase "accumulative selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about evolutionary biology or processes where traits or characteristics are gradually accumulated over time.
Example: "In the context of evolution, accumulative selection plays a crucial role in the development of complex traits."
Alternatives: "cumulative selection" or "progressive selection".
It is clearly evident that the students rarely "see" the evolutionary change being effected by accumulative selection.
Hence, to understand natural selection, the student has to learn to "see" how the accumulative selection causes evolutionary change.
This accumulative selection explains the grand consequence of the evolutionary process that goes by the name of evolutionary adaptation.
This is in complete contrast to Darwin's (and even the Darwinian's, for that matter) understanding of evolutionary change as a change caused by accumulative selection.
To understand natural selection, the student has to learn to see: first, the difference between individual change and evolutionary change and then, the difference between a cause that effects evolutionary change by transformative action and a cause that effects evolutionary change by accumulative selection.
The stable difference in the adapted strain (HI 001) could be either a consequence of accumulative mutations or due to selection of variants already found in the original culture (UTEX LB #200).
The evolutionary change effected in selection is thus an accumulative change.
Survival curves for accumulative rates of hospitalization and emergency department visits were created.
Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) is a useful metabolic engineering strategy, which allows the selection of the microorganisms with beneficial phenotype through accumulative beneficial mutations among genetic variations occurrencely.
It's funky, funny, fussy, perverse, obsessive, riotous, accumulative, awkward, hypnotic, all evident even in the fairly tame selections by Anne Swartz, the curator for this show.
In our study, the hub selection criterion was based on the position of a sharp turn (or inflection point) on an accumulative protein interaction distribution plot from each of the four species.
