Sentence examples for selection took place from inspiring English sources

In the Galapagos, where Darwin conceived of natural selection, a bit of unnatural selection took place after a tanker spilled its load in January 2001.

The Belgian Serge Pauwels attempted to break Sky's stranglehold and a further selection took place, with the group topping the climb only 15strongg.

But Peter F. Vallone, the City Council speaker, said that he had asked his Office of Investigations and Oversight to review how the selection took place and why a nonprofit was not chosen.

I enjoyed these as it showed how Celeste grew as a person in the time the Selection took place, and showed more about her character, explaining her reasons for her actions.

I had no idea when I was writing the first chapter just how remarkable the book would be, as it had seemed self-evident for more than a decade to me that panglossian theories were erroneous and that natural selection took place at the genetic level.

First, the usual depiction of alleles residing at the same locus on homologous chromosomes so central to Mendelian genetics is an oversimplification, but more importantly, for at least half of life on earth, replication and selection took place in the absence of chromosomes, meiosis and the like.

Failure to be selected results in additional TCRα rearrangement, and eventually, if no positive selection takes place, the cell undergoes apoptosis (for review, see Starr et al).[17].[17]

The process of directional selection takes place in spurts.

Does Darwinian selection take place at the level only of individuals, or of groups as well?

At lower levels of China's Communist Party, meritocratic selection takes place.

Generally, models arrive at fashion shoots having done their casting sessions days before, but in this instance, the selection takes place in a single morning.