The phrase "as a consequence of natural selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the effects or outcomes that arise due to the process of natural selection in biological contexts.
Example: "The diversity of species in this ecosystem can be attributed to adaptations that developed as a consequence of natural selection."
Alternatives: "as a result of natural selection" or "due to natural selection".
My wife, Sigal Balshine, is a behavioural ecologist, which means that she tries to make sense of the observed behaviour of living organisms as a consequence of natural selection operating in real ecological environments.
Adaptive evolution occurs when the genetic constitution of a population changes as a consequence of natural selection.
Available theory that specifically addresses this issue appears to consist of a verbal model that argues for synchronous senescence arising as a consequence of natural selection.
Let us now consider the phenomenon of island speciation from the point of view developed in the previous paragraphs, i.e. that speciation occurs mostly as a consequence of natural selection, in other words in a context where it is advantageous for subgroups of individuals to stop breeding with the ancestral stock.
Rather, given the curvilinear increase, for example, in fecundity with female body size characteristic of most fishes, such a relationship may be more appropriately described as being a consequence of natural selection.
The second is that the order in nature is a consequence of natural selection.
Black colour expressions in wild horses are presumed to have been a consequence of natural selection associated with dense forests following glaciation.
However, it is unknown whether this phenomenon is due to elevated mutation rates, or is a consequence of natural selection.
A greater understanding of the evolution of robustness is needed to clarify whether genetic robustness evolved as a direct consequence of natural selection (adaptive robustness), as a byproduct of stabilizing selection acting on fitness-related traits (intrinsic robustness), or as a correlated response to environmental robustness (congruent robustness) [ 2].
The term "adaptation" or adaptive trait is also used for a feature that has evolved as consequence of natural selection (Meagher & Futuyma 2001; Mayr 2001 and Gregory 2009).
According to Richardson, Buss, and other evolutionary psychologists, "Having assumed the 'fact' of design, they 'explain' the complex structures and behaviors we see as the consequence of natural selection, often without independent evidence.
