Sentence examples for independently of selection from inspiring English sources
The genetic parameters estimates suggest that growth performance can be selected for independently of selection on resistance to naïve infestation.
The fact that homeoboxes apparently operate independently of selection (since they have persisted unchanged for hundreds of millions of years) indicates that, to an important extent, form is independent of function.
It is now clear that the RpoS response induces mutagenesis independently of selection for any particular mutation (shown also by 94).
In order to explain the evolution of this domain, it may be necessary to explore the role of molecular drive, which includes all the DNA turnover mechanisms that change the genetic composition of a population, independently of selection and drift [ 51].
This view has frequently been rejected as too anthropomorphic precisely because it implies that sexual selection can act independently of natural selection — an unsettling thought for the typical adaptationist.
Demographic processes modulate genome-wide levels and patterns of genetic variation via impacting effective population size independently of natural selection.
For example, we have assumed that the strings of symbols are ergodic: the probability distribution for the occurrences of each symbol is assumed to be stable through time and independently of the selection of a certain string.
It appears that I formerly underrated the frequency and value of these latter forms of variation, as leading to permanent modifications of structure independently of natural selection" (Origin of Species, 6th edition, Chapter 15, p. 395, emphasis mine).
Moreover, for the first time this study demonstrates that antioxidant capacity does not covary with age, independently of natural selection.
The longer duration of dual antiplatelet therapy required with DES [32] may reduce long-term adverse event rates independently of stent selection [33].
However, such facial variation can serve to mask other distinctions between male and female faces that evolve independently of any selection pressure on body size.
