Sentence examples for because of natural selection from inspiring English sources

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Living creatures are as they are because of natural selection, not "colouring technique".

If a mutation helped bacteria thrive in this new environment, it might become more common because of natural selection.

A small amount of the variation is associated with particular human ethnic or geographic groups, mostly because of natural selection for resistance to disease.

The final chapter suggests that Ashkenazi Jews are intelligent because of "natural selection for success in white-collar occupations", offering a testy defence of IQ tests, "criticisms and dismissals" of which "hardly ever come from scientists working in the area of cognitive testing".

And the uniquely long, postreproductive life span of women, the researchers say, might have come about because of natural selection.

Yet Ponting and the authors caution that many more genomic comparisons of chimpanzees and humans--and finer tools than this study used--will be necessary to identify which CNVs evolved because of natural selection and truly have an impact.

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Lecture 2 included three references to evolutionary pressures: (1) "Because the agents of natural selection are selective pressures, such as wind, rainfall, temperature they are mindless".

Schell points out that because the theory of natural selection accounts for biological diversity, and Darwin's most important experiences in Chile were geological, his time in Chile is often overlooked.

Natural populations tend to be more stable than cultivars in their geographic distributions because the forces of natural selection generally lead to gradual changes over evolutionary time.

One of the major ideas in the evolutionary theory of ageing [36] is the suggestion that, because the force of natural selection declines with age, alleles with deleterious effects seen only at older ages can reach higher frequencies than those that have their effects earlier in life [37].

This pattern is not an accident, because the dynamics of natural selection drive the addition of new amino acids into positions that are consistent with this pattern, as we will show below.

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