Sentence examples for more natural selection from inspiring English sources
Such a colony provides the ideal conditions to foster the evolution of behaviors like cooperation, because the more genetically similar two organisms are, the more natural selection will favor their assisting each other.
What's more, natural selection isn't the only way evolution can occur it's just the best known.
To study mutation under more natural selection conditions, a series of nonlethal systems have been used that prevent growth of the parent cells on selective plates, but still allow mutant colonies to appear over time.
Monteith et al. (2011b suggested that plasticity in mule deer migration might allow the species to avoid such mismatches; however, if there is a genetic basis for the variability in migration among individuals, there may be less plasticity and more natural selection at work (Nelson 1998).
Having evolved in regions where Mycosphaerella is more severe, E. maidenii is likely to have undergone more intense natural selection to such pathogens making them more resistant.
The more Roundup Ready crops are planted, the more Roundup can be sprayed, and the more strongly natural selection favors any weed that happens to carry a mutation that allows it to resist the effects of Roundup.
The disciplinary boundaries roughly correspond to research traditions that focus more on natural selection and those that focus more on cultural evolution.
These examples show the nature of the interaction between cultural evolutionary thinking and more traditional natural selection thinking.
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More important, natural selection and other processes change gene frequencies in ways not governed by pure chance, so that no allele has an opportunity to become fixed as a consequence of genetic drift alone.
Elle Hunt at the Guardian takes on Evelleen Richards's expansive account of Darwin's theory of sexual selection, perhaps the biologist's most misunderstood and least explored supposition: Richards argues that, more than natural selection, Darwin's theory of sexual selection was uniquely his own and, perhaps as a result, often misunderstood.
