Sentence examples for shift the selection from inspiring English sources

Among those who were dissatisfied by the shift, the selection of Dr. Braxton, a Baptist minister and former Rhodes scholar who described himself as "progressive evangelical," was viewed as a confirmation of the conservative trend.

It's a change that shifts the selection of new programs to parents (preschoolers won't see any promotions for these shows while watching an old favorite, at least not yet).

Kin and multilevel selection shift the accuracy of selection in a positive direction, and therefore increase the utilization of genetic variance by selection.

Furthermore, stopping the test at an earlier stage would shift the focus of selection towards endurance (especially for classical models).

Such an approach will not reduce the length of the breeding/selection cycle, but will shift the mean of the selection population.

The Houbaras' supportive breeding is rather unique in the sense that several thousand individuals are individually managed, while breeding scheme rests on strict genetic guidelines, which might shift the focus on avoiding selection pressures rather than avoiding genetic drift.

The reproductive isolation of the lakes is likely to have affected adaptive divergence among populations, in the short term by shifting the migration-selection balance.

The lack of immigration from other populations into the lakes should in the short term reduce influx of locally maladaptive alleles thereby shifting the migration-selection balance in favor of local adaptation.

"This model of evolution of resistance by a predator to a prey's defenses is one of the better examples of how [natural] selection can shift the balance back to the side of the predator," comments Roy Caldwell for the University of California, Berkeley.

Yet, they cannot take over the population, since in that case directional selection would shift the consumer population back to the original state in Fig.  2b.

If such genetic variation is present, and if selection can shift the mean fitness so that it exceeds one sufficiently rapidly, the population can begin to rebound and thus has a chance of persisting in the novel environment.