How to Use natural selection in a Sentence

natural selection

noun

• And that’s when natural selection kicks in and the tree of life starts adding shoots and branches.
  — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2019
• Put that ball in the arms of Pittman Sr.'s son and send him through the hole against fifth graders, and natural selection soon took its course.
  — Nate Atkins, IndyStar, 11 Oct. 2022
• That left Armstead as the most natural selection to play the weak side.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 22 June 2018
• In that sense, members of the Class of ’13 are also survivors of the game’s natural selection.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• In any case, scientists are not about to stand back and hope that natural selection saves the day.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 May 2018
• No idea could compete with blood and soil, with natural selection and the evolution of the species.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• Like natural selection, the shift will be subject to the forces of evolution; hitters will adapt or die.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 14 May 2018
• What both authors agree on is that life has evolved through natural selection.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• There will be a natural selection between brands that are just doing PR moves and brands that stand for something.
  — Vogue, 3 Sep. 2020
• Both used years of natural selection to find a naturally seedless strain, and do not employ GMOs to rid the fruit of seeds.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• By way of death, natural selection kicks the less-than-ideal genes out of the population.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 May 2018
• In this case, perhaps a kind of natural selection has triumphed once again.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
• No double-digit lead is big enough for the NBA’s natural selection.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
• That is, there was no natural selection for these diseases.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 27 July 2022
• But things can be different if the new allele has natural selection on its side.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2020
• Viruses do not just shape the human genome through natural selection, though.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
• The Losos group discovered instead that storms can be agents of natural selection.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 30 July 2020
• Hopefully, one day, natural selection will take care of it for good.
  — Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• Most of it won’t matter in the least when natural selection throws up another disease with the properties of Covid-19.
  — WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
• And once the animal virus is in a human, natural selection will work in favour of mutations that make the virus successful.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2022
• But there are other forces at work, often at odds with natural selection.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 May 2024
• The acclaimed nearby bakery Arcade will supply the bread, and the wine list will lean toward natural selections.
  — Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• What if natural selection was acting on body size only, and brain size was just a passenger?
  — Paul Manger, Quartz Africa, 28 June 2019
• This might be natural selection working at lightning speed, an example of survival of the fittest frogs.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 May 2018
• So a better way of removing glucose from the blood and into storage cells will be favoured by natural selection.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2019
• Hundreds of thousands of years is plenty of time for Darwinian natural selection to have changed Lystrosaurus.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• That’s the beauty of robotics—engineers don’t have to follow the rules of natural selection.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 12 May 2021
• But this mismatch is a daunting problem for natural selection to solve.
  — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• In other words, moral tenets—such as the rightness of loyalty or the wrongness of murder—do not exist unless natural selection produces organisms that value them.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• If distractibility is such a disadvantage, wouldn’t natural selection have weeded us out long ago?
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024