Sentence examples for became a selective force from inspiring English sources

By this argument, as our ancestors started tinkering with the first flint-knapped stone tools, the tools became a selective force, favoring individuals whose hands could most efficiently use them, and whose handy offspring in turn built better tools.

Moreover, unlike the lentiviruses that can infect OWMs and hominids, and result in ongoing host virus arms race, the infection by non-lentiviruses is often an occasional zoonosis [41], [42], and is unlikely to become an ongoing selective force, providing a possible explanation why NWM Tetherin does not undergo a continuous adaptive evolution.

As a result, besides thermal selection, time constraints may become an important selective force along latitudinal gradients, and we will consider their contribution in shaping latitudinal gradients in life histories, which is highly relevant when applying space-for-time substitutions.

They found considerable genetic variation for glyphosate tolerance, indicating that the chemical can be a selective force.

"The evidence," he wrote in The Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, "is strongly suggestive that magnetic reversals either directly or indirectly exert a selective force".

Exon definition may thus be a selective force against intron loss.

35 Hence, transit time may act as a selective force on gut bacterial growth rates.

Either naturally or artificially, there is a selective force which explicitly discriminates between cycles.

In "Speak" she played a high school freshman who becomes a selective mute after being raped.

To become a selective hunter, you need more than just a license.

Adolescence became a market force.