Sentence examples for selection of a major from inspiring English sources

In that period, he produced three more major novels, To Love and Corrupt (1962), Monkey on a String (1968), and Life Lines (1982); each was a selection of a major book club.

The people who run our institutions of higher education have nearly all bought into the dubious proposition that the selection of a major should involve a cost/benefit calculation of tuition paid versus projected earnings.

Gene duplication, evolutionary rate and positive selection of a major gene family of seed storage proteins (the 11S globulin genes), were compared in dicots and monocots.

The dynamic systems were further coupled, directly in situ, to a secondary kinetically controlled enzymatic resolution step, resulting in the selection of a major product in high enantiomeric purity.

We excluded participants with psychiatric, emotional or cognitive problems that could prevent reliable completion of the questionnaire; a diagnosis of a disease that is likely to influence completion of the questionnaire or selection of items; a major illness that substantially influences the patient's quality of life; distance of residence from recruitment centre of greater than 1 hour drive.

Maynard Smith thought that Gould misjudged the vital role of adaptation in biology, and was critical of Gould's acceptance of species selection as a major component of biological evolution.

Is this kind of selection a major problem or a minor one?

Darwin succeeded in convincing the educated world of the reality of common ancestry, and of natural selection, but the question of whether natural selection was a major mechanism of evolutionary change remained controversial until the Modern Synthesis of natural selection and Mendelian genetics in the 1930s 1940s.

Selection for good hearing function in some occupations could in principle bias the results, but we think it unlikely that this type of selection had a major effect on our results.

Alfred Russel Wallace, eminent naturalist and codiscoverer of the principle of natural selection, was a major participant in the antivaccination campaigns in late 19th-century England.

The strong signature of positive Darwinian selection in a major part of D1 protein is testament to this.