In some cases, responses stated or implied that genetic drift causes some differences among individuals, but natural selection causes many differences among individuals: "Genetic drift is more likely [than natural selection] because they share many of the same habitats and seem to be similar".
In addition, the increased tendency to induce labor before a woman's due date, for reasons of convenience, has helped push up the Caesarean rate, because induction is more likely than natural labor to fail and result in a Caesarean.
In its report, the Times wrote that the C-section rate in the U.S. has been "climbing since 1996, despite warnings from health officials that C-sections are more likely than natural births to cause problems for the health of the mother and the baby".
"Genetic drift is more likely [than natural selection] because they share many of the same habitats and seem to be similar".
Interestingly, the only threat that was more likely than natural disaster to lead to a reduction in food consumption was crop/livestock disease.
We believe that the proposal of a massive WGD in the yeast lineage based solely on the evidence of interleaving patterns in sister regions (i.e., DS) is unwarranted and that DS events are more likely a natural topological consequence of a more gradual process of rearrangement within and between chromosomes.
However, in general, it is more likely that natural diversity in social behavior arises from multigenic influences that result from the additive or interactive effects of alleles that occur naturally, rather than the lack or over-expression of a single gene product.
Unusual signals from a nearby star that have generated an internet stir about the possible discovery of an alien civilisation are more likely to be natural than artificial according to the official organisation in charge of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti).
Since older individuals are more likely to spawn, natural mortality is likely to increase with age.
