Below you will find example sentences with "natural selection". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Natural Selection in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: selection
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 23
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 23.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 11 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "natural selection" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 23.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as adaptive evolution natural selection often results, alternatively natural selection is sometimes, sexual, genetic and results stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with natural gas, natural resources, natural numbers, selection process, selection committee and sexual selection, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with natural selection
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Natural language and natural selection. (5 words)
Natural selection is nevertheless the dominant part of selection. (9 words)
Through natural selection organisms change over time through adaptation and selection. (11 words)
Research has shifted to investigate and also support the sire-choice hypothesis, which proposes that female orgasm has been shaped by natural selection to function in the selection of high quality sires (male parents) for offspring. (36 words)
Natural selection main Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that increase an individual's fitness become more common, and heritable traits that decrease an individual's fitness become less common. (34 words)
Huxley's reservations on natural selection were of the type "until selection and breeding can be seen to give rise to varieties which are infertile with each other, natural selection cannot be proved". (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Alternatively, natural selection is sometimes defined as synonymous with ecological selection, and sexual selection is then classified as a separate mechanism to natural selection.
Huxley's reservations on natural selection were of the type "until selection and breeding can be seen to give rise to varieties which are infertile with each other, natural selection cannot be proved".
Ecological selection is natural selection via any other means than sexual selection.
Natural selection has also given us culture, a power that – paradoxically enough – allows us to understand and thus ameliorate the power of natural selection itself.
Genetic basis of natural selection The idea of natural selection predates the understanding of genetics.
However, this does not imply that natural selection is always directional and results in adaptive evolution; natural selection often results in the maintenance of the status quo by eliminating less fit variants.
Natural selection main Natural selection is the evolutionary process by which heritable traits that increase an individual's fitness become more common, and heritable traits that decrease an individual's fitness become less common.
As with all other organ functions, cognition 's functional structure has been argued to have a genetic foundation, and is therefore subject to the effects of natural selection and sexual selection.
Konrad Lorenz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 for his analysis of animal behaviour in terms of the role of natural selection (particularly group selection).
Mutation–selection balance main Natural selection results in the reduction of genetic variation through the elimination of maladapted individuals and consequently of the mutations that caused the maladaptation.
Natural selection can be contrasted with artificial selection, in which humans intentionally choose specific traits (although they may not always get what they want).
Natural selection is nevertheless the dominant part of selection.
Painting by John Gerrard Keulemans (d.1912) Sexual selection is a form of natural selection where one sex prefers a specific characteristic in an individual of the other sex.
Research has shifted to investigate and also support the sire-choice hypothesis, which proposes that female orgasm has been shaped by natural selection to function in the selection of high quality sires (male parents) for offspring.
These early phases of population growth experience density-independent forces of natural selection, which is called r-selection.
Through natural selection organisms change over time through adaptation and selection.
His strategy established that evolution through natural laws was worthy of scientific study, and by 1875, most scientists accepted that evolution occurred but few thought natural selection was significant.
His theory of natural selection provided a natural explanation of how species originated, but this only gained wide acceptance a century later.
In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper "Natural Language and Natural Selection" citation which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.
Natural language and natural selection.