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extremely strong negative selection, but its relative commonality in human populations suggests a counteracting selection pressure. The identity of that...

counteracting selection. Secondary contact could lead to a cline with a steep gradient if heterozygote disadvantage or frequency-dependent selection exists...

time is counteracted by negative selection, which acts to purge deleterious mutations. Setting aside other factors (e.g., balancing selection, and genetic...

In economics, insurance, and risk management, adverse selection is a market situation where asymmetric information results in a party taking advantage...

the same sex for access to mates–intrasexual competition, counteracted by fecundity selection on the other sex. Some callitrichine and strepsirrhine primates...

outcomes. Sexual dimorphism is maintained by the counteracting pressures of natural selection and sexual selection. For example, sexual dimorphism in coloration...

finished their four-year college eligibility are automatically eligible for selection, while the underclassmen have to declare their eligibility and give up...

water, restoring normal cell volume. These molecules are involved in counteracting the effects of osmotic stress, which occurs when there are fluctuations...

know what Oliver wants to buy Arnold for his birthday. Haney shows him a selection of ridiculous gifts and Oliver sends him away. Lisa and Eb make it sound...

counteract what Gadsby believed to be Arminian and legalistic tendencies in some of Isaac Watts' Psalms and Hymns. Nevertheless, Gadsby's Selection of...

as a selection force intentionally implemented by humans to counteract the selection force of trophy hunting. Hunting typically enforces selection towards...

– was common. One study has concluded that human selection for domestic traits likely counteracted the homogenizing effect of gene flow from wild boars...

infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package intended to help counteract the ongoing recession. During this period, Biden was satisfied that no...

system must only appear random, and may even have ways to control the selection of music: a truly random system would have no restriction on the same...

thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil. This allows for the elimination of much of the heavy and bulky recoil-counteracting equipment of...

change the selection criteria of one of its already listed sites. Any proposal for a significant boundary change or to modify the site's selection criteria...

This assembly in living organisms decreases uniformity and disorder, counteracting the universal tendency towards disorder and uniformity described by...

analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any sentient designer. In 2006, Dawkins published The...

DNA replication in prokaryotes. They frequently also contain a gene for selection such as antibiotic resistance, so that the transformed cells can be identified...

exploited aquatic organism's population, brought on through the artificial selection for biological traits by fishing practices (fishing techniques and fisheries...