Sentences with phrase «process of natural selection»

The very process of natural selection is happening there.

But the question arises: Do dinosaurs and finches possess their specific features in order to realize particular goals or because during the course of evolutionary experimentation they have accidentally acquired adaptive functions by an impersonal process of natural selection?

This effectiveness has been achieved chiefly through the growth of intelligence, and is most clearly manifest in the decisive change that has taken place in the method of evolution, which in man proceeds through reflective deliberation rather than through the unconscious processes of natural selection that prevailed in the pre-human era.

All life on this earth has descended from a common ancestor through a long process of natural selection.

What the process paradigm generalizes as the principle that «the many become one, and are increased by one,» Kauffman conceptualizes as spontaneous exhibitions of new degrees of order that may play as fundamental a role in shaping evolution as does the Darwinian process of natural selection.

These breakthroughs could bring on an age of directed reproduction and evolution in which humans will bypass the incremental process of natural selection and set off on a high - speed genetic course of their own.

Since evolution is controlled by the processes of natural selection (or, loosely, «survival of the fittest») any physical characteristic will only develop within the parameters of what is biologically useful.

In my view the curriculum matters because there is real cultural knowledge, handed down by a process of natural selection.

Through the process of natural selection, a motivational system designed to regulate attachment emerged.

For many evolutionary biologists, nothing gets their dander up faster than suggesting evolution is anything other than the process of natural selection, acting on random mutations.

It documents the process of natural selection and the relationships throughout the tree of life.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Counterintuitively, war might have also fostered altruism: Since winning battles required cooperation, wartime mortality might have aided the evolution of an altruistic human nature through the process of natural selection.

Haig argued that the process of natural selection would favor mutations in the genes of fathers that boost the amount of nutrition babies get from their mothers.

Since the launch of SETI@home, various other computing projects have emerged, ranging from the search for molecular keys to pick the locks of deadly diseases to collaborative art projects that digitally mimic the process of natural selection.

The second is that this evolution is driven by a process of natural selection or the — «survival of the fittest ``.

A possible consequence of this process of natural selection occurs when females that avoid mating with other species take their choosiness one step further — also shunning certain populations of potential mates from their own species, Fuller said.

Darwin, by comparison, accepted the universality of randomness and chance throughout the process of natural selection.

This distinction, however, proved to be a net gain for humans and may have «helped early Homo sapiens survive in the process of natural selection,» according to one report.

It's a defense mechanism that evolved through the process of natural selection.

These dogs are believed to have adapted to their environments using their capabilities to pass the process of natural selection raising them to the top due to their gifts of smell, sight, and hearing.

This is the process of natural selection in action, which is evident in all animals regardless of whether they are domesticated or wild.

What makes parasites a challenge is that many different types of parasites develop resistance to chemicals over time due to the process of natural selection.

The processes of natural selection and extinction among living things; or technology that has been lost, or has become redundant for its era.

The process of natural selection is the same.

In firms where the partners are relatively young and inexperienced, the process of natural selection, as it were, may be somewhat more difficult.

Of course some blogs will die, but, in my opinion, that is part of the process of natural selection that lets others rise to the top.