Sentence examples for selective reproduction from inspiring English sources

Rather, humans, through selective reproduction, had the ability to control their own future evolution.

Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention.

More than 30 did during the 20th Century, when eugenics was championed as a way to improve society through selective reproduction.

Another related thought is that 'earlier' selective reproduction is always to be preferred to 'later' (other things being equal).

It is not, however, true of PNT; so PNT is embryo-modification or embryo-therapy, rather than selective reproduction.

Nor does it follow that these technologies are any more eugenics than existing methods of selective reproduction (abstinence, adoption, egg donation, etc).

While selective breeding and reproduction are well established technologies, several key parameters required to grow selected strains outdoors still remain elusive.

Through sexual reproduction and recombination, non-additive effects are often not passed on to future generations, which reduces their relevance for selective breeding.

If gene flow among populations is relatively high, it might negate the effects of selective forces favoring reproduction synchronized to seasonal events at any particular location.

Extrapolating from Darwin's theories about heredity, Galton contended that selective human breeding could produce "a highly gifted race of men" -- and that regulating the population could prevent the reproduction of people deemed undesirable.

Thus we can define natural selection as follows: Natural selection is differential reproduction due to differential fitness (or differential adaptedness) within a common selective environment (see next section).