So natural selection can't be the mechanism of evolution".
So although genetic drift is a mechanism of evolution, it doesn't work to produce adaptations.
Zeroing in on these situations may help determine the process and mechanism of evolution.
The discovery of this law was especially significant in affirming natural selection as the primary mechanism of evolution.
"If God chose to use the mechanism of evolution to carry out his creative powers and have forms that will honor him, how can that be clumsy or inelegant?" he asked.
A century and a half after Darwin suggested natural selection as the mechanism of evolution, engineers have proved him right once again.
Adaptation by natural selection, the primary mechanism of evolution, underpins a raft of current social concerns such as antibiotic resistance, the impact of climate change and the relationship between genes and environment.
Charles Darwin always said that the theory of natural selection occurred to him on 28 September 1838 while he was reading Thomas Malthus's essay on population; suddenly, the mechanism of evolution seemed blindingly straightforward.
The mechanism of evolution of microdischarges at the beginning of the plasma electrolytic anodization process is proposed.
CORRECTION: One important mechanism of evolution, natural selection, does result in the evolution of improved abilities to survive and reproduce; however, this does not mean that evolution is progressive for several reasons.
Divergent ITS paralogs were proved to coexist in individual genomes, suggesting a non-concerted mechanism of evolution in the ITS region of O. sinensis.
