In addition, we need to select women and diverse leaders into top roles within healthy organizations and not merely choose them for crises or high-risk assignments.
Editors at Annals of Emergency Medicine have defined the two main functions of peer review in these words, " [w]e perform peer review not merely to select the best science but to improve it before publication".
The analogy is meant to suggest that in biology we often cannot distinguish arches from spandrels in that we often cannot distinguish what was selected-for, because it was adaptive, from what is merely selected, but not selected-for, as a spandrel/free-rider.
My students are not merely thoughtful in selecting hyena names, they are completely obsessed.
As New York City's Chief Technology Officer Miguel Gamino described it: "Our challenge and responsibility is to ensure these technologies reach and benefit all New Yorkers, not merely a select few".
Some methods do not use P-values at all but merely select the n most differentially expressed genes, and specify n arbitrarily.
He points out -- duh! -- that "painters do not merely reproduce; they select and highlight," and he complains that life, unlike art, tends to be filled "with repetitions, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines".
In this study, we have selected not merely for strict viability, but for growth beyond the seedling stage.
They're not merely a cog – Kickstarter carefully selects the projects it allows – but this isn't a total revolution yet, infrastructure-wise.
Sean Hannity, of Fox News, for example, daily presents the vote on November 8th not merely as a chance to select a new President but as a last chance to save the country from politicians and liberals who are out to destroy its very essence.
