The phrase "actively select" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a process where someone is making a conscious choice or decision among options.
Example: "In order to improve your learning experience, you should actively select the resources that best suit your needs."
Alternatives: "consciously choose" or "deliberately pick".
Among the most difficult concepts for students to grasp are that natural selection does not actively "select" in any conscious sense, that evolution has no long-term goals, and that individual organisms under selection do not attempt to improve in the face of environmental challenges.
In half of the trials, participants were asked to actively select the size of the bet (active-choice trials), and in the other half of the trials, the bet size was fixed (no-choice trials).
Today we seem to actively select against leaders who demonstrate self-awareness.
There are two main reasons: the first is that we, as viewers, are increasingly drawn to niche content that we actively select.
In this way, Ballardian environments actively select for psychopathic traits and it's the egocentric Laing who is best adapted to the high-rise who ultimately survives all the tower can throw at him.
The first of a series of reports by the government's independent reviewer of social mobility, the former Labour minister Alan Milburn, has recommended that medical teaching hospitals actively select those with poorer grades who have nevertheless done well for their school in order to ensure doctors from poorer backgrounds can work in the NHS.
In its traditional guise, the interactor question is, what units are being actively selected in a process of natural selection?
On this approach, the level of entity actively selected (the interactor) benefits from evolution by selection at that level through its acquisition of adaptations.
New voters increasingly do not just accrue but are actively selected by them.
They fret about PGD moving from merely avoiding deleterious traits to actively selecting desirable ones.
"Breeders are not actively selecting for CO2 response," Dr. Ziska said.
