The phrase "actively selecting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a process where someone is making deliberate choices or decisions among options.
Example: "The committee is actively selecting candidates for the scholarship program based on their qualifications and achievements."
Alternatives: "deliberately choosing" or "intentionally picking".
"Breeders are not actively selecting for CO2 response," Dr. Ziska said.
They fret about PGD moving from merely avoiding deleterious traits to actively selecting desirable ones.
But the queasy feeling takes over once parents start eradicating character traits such as homosexuality, or actively selecting good genes athleticism, tallness, a high IQ.Of course, parents have always tried to determine their children's genes.
The ability to adapt to new information, including actively selecting work environments which better support personal and professional goals, may be an important determinant of occupational health and longevity within this field.
Taken together, Flavivirus analysis suggests that a vertebrate-specific evolutionary pressure is actively selecting both host mRNAs and viral genomes against CpG usage and possibly against TpA as well, indirectly leading to the scenario of viral mimicry of host dinucleotide usage.
This study showed that non-experts were able to improve biodiversity estimators by actively selecting a variety of microhabitats.
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 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.
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.
