Sentence examples for selection of chance from inspiring English sources

The notion that the male argus pheasant's exotic feather designs could have evolved from the females' selection of variations over time, he wrote, "seems as incredible, as that one of Raphael's Madonnas should have been formed by the selection of chance daubs of paint made by a long succession of young artists, no one of whom intended at first to draw the human figure".

She remarks (p. 82): "The total reliance of natural selection on chance was simply not compatible with the notion of any fixed direction".

However, as we targeted only coding regions, the chances of identifying signals of selection by chance alone should be much lower than in genomic studies.

Although prospective and involving a large number of centres and with a reasonable sample size, (thus minimising selection bias and role of chance), the observational nature of our study does not offer the same possibility for comparing the effectiveness of different treatment strategies as a randomised controlled trial.

Propelled by the forces of selection and chance, the most efficient genes survived, and evolution insured that they would thrive.

Alternatively, this pattern could be a result of selection or chance.

Genes are at the positions they are because of chance, not selection pressure.

A desired effect estimate may be obtained as a result of chance, model selection and/or varying the eligibility criteria and definitions of the outcome, exposure and covariates.

This means that the high prediction accuracy may be due to the by chance selection of TFs which are co-expressed with the target gene.

The robust and sophisticated statistical approach applied in the study enabled us to minimize the chance of selection of a redundant predictor for the prognostic model, ensuring the selected model reliably predicts the risk of a woman developing GDM in under-resourced settings.

With the selection of κ, it creates a chance for performance optimisation in the dropping probability space of P drop,i, as shown in Fig. 3a.