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516 examples of Selection in a sentence

This explains why a mutation like the one that causes Huntington's disease, another degenerative neurological disorder, hasn't been eliminated by natural selection.
And through a process of architectural selection, we might choose a really beautiful model or we might have a very functional model.
Although, to be sure, the reputation system, at the moment, works that you leave your report after the couch surfing experience, so there may be some selection bias there.
If there’s more than one, a convenient way to choose is to pick the one that’s alphabetically earliest, though other selection methods can work just as well.
I want to share with you the selection of work by contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora.
It happened through a principle known as kin selection.
And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then, in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.
Actually, I think the bad news about kin selection is just that it means that this kind of compassion is naturally deployed only within the family.
It starts to select out for those bad, aggressive cells, what we call clonal selection.
Here are some selection planes.
And so I think that we evolved ... there was a natural selection for the propensity for our belief engines, our pattern-seeking brain processes, to always find meaningful patterns and infuse them with these sort of predatory or intentional agencies that I'll come back to.
She's a skilled human curator who knows what material is available to her, who's able to listen to the audience, and who's able to make a selection and push people forward in one fashion or another.
And it was designed by natural selection, the process of natural selection, over many millions of years.
It was the clever move of natural selection itself.
The designs discovered by the process of natural selection are brilliant, unbelievably brilliant.
And what I find deeply troubling in this book is that he seems to be arguing that if you want to be moral, if you want to have meaning in your life, you have to be an Intelligent Designer, you have to deny the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Darwin himself, in his autobiography, tells the story of coming up with the idea for natural selection as a classic eureka moment.
And all of a sudden, the basic algorithm of natural selection kind of pops into his head, and he says, "Ah, at last, I had a theory with which to work."
And what Gruber found was that Darwin had the full theory of natural selection for months and months and months before he had his alleged epiphany reading Malthus in October of 1838.
Nothing made sense...and yet, someone thought this film was worthy to be an official selection at a film festival.
Maybe the song selection could have been a little more original.
TDY is probably the single worst piece of trash to ever hit the straight to video selection.
selection of horror/thriller fragments that are considered classic but ...what's the point?
The selection of the bloated, boring, and racist "Cimarron" ranks as the worst choice for Best Picture in Oscar history.
This film is proof that while such selections may satisfy the egos of the film-maker and the selection panel, there is absolutely no joy for the audience.
There is no character development whatsoever, the plot is a garbled mess, the style is nonsensical, the shot selection is appalling, and the editing is worse.
He also had a large selection of "shrunken heads" that several local children knew about as he often babysat for them.
I seriously want to buy this movie and place it atop my comedy movie selection.
It is apparent that Charley had been aware of the flawed condition of his heart, because he created a video tape during which his commentary bequeaths his large (and mortgaged) residence in Hollywood to Reno, and we see the latter deciding to, contrary to his vow, interview applicants for two roommates as tenants, with he and Holly sharing the selection process in an organized manner.
Pass this one up for any other rental selection, or find yourself shouting out vile comments at the TV.
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