Sentence examples for assert selection from inspiring English sources

Reproduction is also interesting from the perspective of brain evolution and development since it may assert selection for both increases and decreases in brain size.

Intelligent design advocates assert that natural selection could not create irreducibly complex systems, because the selectable function is present only when all parts are assembled.

But the finest examples, like those in the Lally selection, assert themselves anywhere.

Because the mean change within significant windows is only 1.5 SD of the background distribution, it is essentially impossible to assert an effect of selection strictly from changes in the amount of sequence variation.

Nor, Jones asserts, does natural selection have any "inbuilt tendency to improve matters".

According to Gould the term is a "deductive intellectual consequence of asserting that natural selection acts as the creative mechanism of evolutionary change".

The critics argue that Nowak and his colleagues make an unwarranted distinction between inclusive fitness and natural selection theory, and assert that inclusive fitness has been quite valuable.

They assert that alr2 polymorphism is maintained by balancing selection, with negative frequency dependent selection as the mechanism.

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses against HIV-1 assert a strong evolutionary pressure on the virus, causing selection of HIV-1 variants that successfully escape recognition by CTL [2] [4].

Thus, it may be difficult, using our approach, to confidently assert that a genomic window contains no functional sequence a window experiencing selection at relatively few selected sites will be difficult to distinguish from an unconstrained window.

We use a novel approach to assert independence among the evolutionary breaks, while minimizing the role of negative selection as an underlying cause.