Sentence examples for selecting traits from inspiring English sources
For natural selection to avoid reducing to merely an assumption of natural forces behind evolution (rather than supernatural forces), we must carefully define natural selection as a theory of how evolution occurs, not a force or agent "selecting" traits, organisms or populations.
As another answer, Darwin used the analogy of animal and plant breeders selecting traits that involve sacrificing individuals by breeding their relatives, which was the seed of kin selection theory.
By December 1838, he had noted a similarity between the act of breeders selecting traits and a Malthusian Nature selecting among variants thrown up by "chance" so that "every part of newly acquired structure is fully practical and perfected".
This has involved selecting traits such as photoperiod insensitivity, reduced height (to reduce lodging), drought tolerance, and pest and disease resistance (Reddy et al., 2006).
As signatures are further developed in future work, they have the potential to guide those engaged in crop improvement for selecting traits of agronomic and nutritional importance.
Undergraduate and graduate students worked with each group to assist in the development of the trees and help students understand the process of selecting traits and determining evolutionary relatedness.
One concerns the fact that natural selection is extensional (Fodor, 1990b) and the other concerns the fact that natural selection selects traits for complex causal roles (Neander, 1995).
We focus on linear selection gradients, since our interest is in directional selection on sexually selected traits [ 27].
The desired information is displayed by selecting trait categories and chromosome locations from the drop-down boxes, or by specifying search text (Figure 4A, top).
Here, we show that condition-dependent expression is not sufficient to maintain genetic variance available to sexual selection in multiple male sexually selected traits.
Most sexually selected traits are under directional selection [32].
