Sentence examples for rather than selecting for from inspiring English sources

Neoteny is a short-cut taken by evolution – a route that brings about a whole bundle of changes in one go, rather than selecting for them one by one.

This time molecular markers were used to track the introgressions created for three to five generations, rather than selecting for memory retention during the introgression as before.

Our results for LSCC indicated that efforts should focus on improving the level of management rather than selecting for somatic cells, in the actual conditions of the Churra breed.

Rather than selecting cases for similarities, we sought to select for variety, drawing out the wide disparities between cases to enable a sense of the types of education programming taking pace in very different conflict environments.

Rather than selecting specific electrode sites for examination, which can be subjective and possibly overlook significant findings at other electrode locations, we explored multi-sample AEP segments from all electrodes on the scalp and identified spatiotemporal patterns of AEP differences observed across experimental conditions.

For crops with genetically depauperate landrace populations, selection may act to eliminate or maintain them based on their existing levels of adaptation to novel conditions, rather than selecting within the population for a more optimal phenotype.

The results from future studies can be more readily compared if estimates are reported per degree Celsius or Fahrenheit per unit change in temperature (assuming linearity), or if a regression coefficient is given, rather than selecting a threshold value for temperature.

When the deterministic models are developed, and used to characterize a whatever process governing the road traffic phenomena, they should be applied for many iterations; for each iteration, rather than selecting the mean or the median value for each parameter, the values of model parameters should be randomly drawn from the corresponding probability distributions.

Many reasons are likely for this difference: We used DNA that was collected over ten years and was of varying quality; we also compared all the SNPs on the microarray rather than selecting only a few SNPs for comparison.

Rather than selecting a very diverse germplasm for the analysis, a sample composed mostly of Valenciano accessions collected throughout Brazil, representing the commercial varieties planted in the country, predominated in the study.

Teachers assign recreational reading books for students rather than selecting them together.