The phrase "against which evolutionary" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing evolutionary theory, comparisons, or critiques related to evolution.
Example: "The study presents a hypothesis against which evolutionary mechanisms can be tested."
Alternatives: "in opposition to evolutionary" or "contrary to evolutionary".
A more fundamental reason for a discussion of drift here in an entry on natural selection is the view that drift is the zero-force background against which evolutionary forces, including natural selection, act (Brandon 2006).
Pre-existing genetic polymorphism in populations provides the raw material for evolutionary adaptation to climate change [4], [5], [6], [7] and historical gene frequencies are also a benchmark against which evolutionary response can be measured [8], [9].
On the basis of the pan-genomic concept [ 60, 61], genome dynamics according to the phylogeny of the 27 mycobacteria were measured to assess the evolutionary scale against which the evolutionary steps led to the contemporary genomes.
He and the same Washington University genome team have now decoded the chimpanzee Y chromosome, providing for the first time a reference against which to assess the evolutionary history of the human Y.
Large datasets on genetic polymorphism that can provide an historical benchmark against which to test for recent evolutionary responses are very rare, but an exception is found in the brown-lipped banded snail (Cepaea nemoralis).
Because neither complementarity nor defence-counterdefence traits are expected to arise in such interactions, they may provide an evolutionary model against which to evaluate mutualistic and antagonistic network properties.
Genome-wide SNP-based phylogenetic trees of the classical Bordetellae provide a robust model of their genetic relationship against which to measure the relative evolutionary pressures on the various factors that might affect their success differently in various environments.
We highlight how the debate has led to increased understanding of the importance of phylogenetic methods, of the viability of optimality models as tools for testing adaptive hypotheses, and of whether constraint hypotheses are rivals to adaptive hypotheses or provide the backdrop against which we test hypotheses about the evolutionary process.
The multidisciplinary nature of most research questions related to the early settlement of a continent also calls for evolutionary theory as the background against which biological, biogeographical, and archaeological data can make sense.
Just as in Newtonian mechanics one could not properly understand the notion of gravitational force, without understanding Newton's 1st Law, similarly one cannot understand natural selection in evolutionary biology without understanding the background against which it operates.
The evolutionary analysis presented here provides a backdrop against which we can evaluate particular coding variants and rate their likelihood of being not merely allelic polymorphisms but disease causing mutations.
