Selection in sentence

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So the next selection, I filled out the application, and I got in.

Harkening back to Susan Blackmore's talk, we now have a means of transmitting information with heredity and selection, and we know where that leads.

So when the jury selection process took place, they asked me, "Could you, if the evidence presented justified the death penalty, could you deliver, rationally and without reservations, a penalty of death?"

We lucked out, frankly, on the selection.

For in the months leading up to my selection, like many young people, I'd been active in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and had written an article against Lyndon Johnson, which unfortunately came out in The New Republic two days after the dance in the White House.

Sadly, while all dog breeds are the product of artificial selection, some are healthier than others.

Generations of selection for tameness have favored more juvenile and submissive traits that were pleasing to humans.

I'm going to tell you the genuine mainstream answer to your question, which I happen to agree with, which is that, no, aging is not a product of selection, evolution; [aging] is simply a product of evolutionary neglect.

But not only that, if you think about how natural selection works, then it turns out that natural selection would only make sense in such a relational universe.

That is, natural selection works on properties, like fitness, which are about relationships of some species to some other species.

So a theory of biology based on natural selection requires a relational notion of what are the properties of biological systems.

We set up a Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest selection system that explored tens of millions of protein variants and only allowed those rare variants that could perform the necessary chemistry to survive.

Airplanes were invented by natural selection.

And in order not to have the selection bias, to look only at geniuses, we ended up reconstructing the career of every single scientist from 1900 till today and finding for all scientists what was their personal best, whether they got the Nobel Prize or they never did, or no one knows what they did, even their personal best.

We survived the African savannas, despite being weaker and slower than our predators and most of our prey, by an amazing ability to engage in mutual aid, and that urge to cooperate has been hardwired into our minds through natural selection.

This happened through continuous cultivation and selection of those plants with a special capacity - only a small part of wild plants and animals can be domesticated at all.

But both of us dropped our selection and walked away.

To answer this question, it helps to understand natural selection.

Natural selection simply means that traits which help an organism survive and reproduce in a given environment are more likely to make it to the next generation.

What would it mean for transportation, or learning, communication, manufacturing, weaponry or even natural selection?

And this is just a selection of things that were built in the last couple of years.

And so gradually the selection, the composition of politicians, would shift from the crooked to the honest.

And therefore, as with all biology, you get selection through screening, whether you're screening for hydrogen production, or chemical production, or just viability.

There was natural selection for the evolution of lightly pigmented skin.

Now what is wonderful about the evolution of human skin pigmentation, and the phenomenon of pigmentation, is that it is the demonstration, the evidence, of evolution by natural selection, right on your body.

The process of evolution by natural selection typically eliminates harmful mutations.

In doing so, it demonstrates that natural selection doesn't always make our bodies better.

Natural selection acts slowly, there are limitations to the changes it can make and it optimizes for reproductive success, not health.

The way the pace of natural selection affects human health is probably most obvious in people's relationship with infectious pathogens.

Now what does it mean that there are limitations to the changes natural selection can make?

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