Sentence examples for both selection and extinction from inspiring English sources

Both selection and extinction involve changes in lineage fitness, which may be represented as "trajectories" through a "fitness landscape" defined by genetics and environment.

Through chance, selection and extinction, he had told his class, today's powerfully muscled, shoulder-high horses had evolved from squat dog-sized creatures.

Costa superbly teaches us how Darwin here (p. 116) brings together phenomena of "…divergence of character, natural selection, and extinction into a unitary system".

The evolutionary history of the APOBEC3 genes involves expansion, divergence, selection and extinction of specific A3 copies [ 80].

In a recent work, Galand and co-workers (2009) demonstrated patterns of biogeography for the rare biosphere and concluded that its diversity is most likely subjected to ecological processes such as selection, speciation, and extinction.

He articulated concisely the elements as well as the sources familiar to Darwin: artificial selection, the struggle for survival, competition and extinction, the way species changed into different forms by an impersonal, describable process, by a logic that did not need the intervention of a deity.

Both mutation and extinction near the zero cell boundary condition are left out of this model.

The third model (BOTHVAR) uses linear diversity-dependence for both speciation and extinction rates [ 24].

Our results therefore have important implications for understanding global patterns of both diversity and extinction risk.

A Birth-Death tree prior was used, which accounts for both speciation and extinction [ 110].

In the recently published dynamic developmental theory of ADHD (DDT) [ 19] it is argued that the main behavioural selection mechanisms, reinforcement and extinction, are altered in ADHD.