Sentence examples for by natural selection for from inspiring English sources

We infer a similar selective sweep around OsAMT1 1 caused largely by natural selection for an ammonium transporter.

Exaptation — a feature that performs a function but that was not produced by natural selection for its current use.

If a trait has been shaped by natural selection for a particular task, it must actually perform that task.

Adaptation — a feature produced by natural selection for its current function (such as echolocation in bats, right).

But Darwin saw the peculiarities of orchids in a completely new light, as devices, honed and molded by natural selection for the purpose of promoting sexual reproduction.

Perhaps the feature was produced by natural selection for a function other than the one it currently performs and was then co-opted for its current function.

What happens in the process of evolution by natural selection happens for their sake, for their benefit.

Evolutionary biology keeps reminding us that we are animals, designed by natural selection, not for discovering deep truths of nature, but for breeding.

Gould and Lewontin thus defined "spandrels" in the evolutionary biology context, to mean any biological feature of an organism that arises as a necessary side consequence of other features, which is not directly selected for by natural selection.

The greater infection instability in vegetative tillers in ME+ plants can be expected because the novel fungal-grass genotype combinations were not tested and selected for by natural selection.

Supposedly, evolution by natural selection provided support for these ideas.