This will be a natural selection of the brightest, or the [1] Grant Allen, I have recently learned, advances in Science in Arcady the theory that there is a natural selective cause fostering the bright blooms of alpines.
The selective cause is, however, by him referred to the greater abundance of butterfly relatively to bee fertilizers.
Through search for balance of tone there was inaugurated a selective process as to the permanent value of each specific genre of an instrument.
Thus in all these cases, Basques, Armenians, and Jews, we have a potentselective force at work.
One cannot be both splendidly free in the random choice of movements and selectivewith deadly certainty.
Here are the phenomena of Hybridism staring you in the face, and you cannot say, 'I can, by selective modification, produce these same results.
Now, it is admitted on all hands that, at present, so far as experiments have gone, it has not been found possible to produce this complete physiological divergence by selective breeding.
I do not know that there is a single fact which would justify any one in saying that any degree of sterility has been observed between breeds absolutely known to have been produced by selective breeding from a common stock.
The first concerns the selective service act which expires next June 30th.
These measures will include more adequate medical care for dependents, survivors' benefits, more and better housing, and selective adjustments in military pay and other allowances.
Wise reduction of these barriers is a long-term objective of our foreign economic policy--a policy of an evolutionary and selective nature, assuring broad benefits to our own and other peoples.
A later stage in this selective wave carving under the control of joints is reached when the bridge above the arch has fallen in, leaving a detached rock island with precipitous walls.
We are later to learn that another great transporting agent, the water wave, makes a selective attack upon the lithosphere along the fractures of the joint system (Fig.
In a sense, every American, because of the privilege of his citizenship, is a part of the Selective Service.
Therefore, I believe that it will be necessary to lower the present minimum age limit for Selective Service from twenty years down to eighteen.
The Nation owes a debt of gratitude to the Selective Service boards.
The successful operation of the Selective Service System and the way it has been accepted by the great mass of our citizens give us confidence that if necessary, the same principle could be used to solve any manpower problem.
And it is here that the fineselective instinct of the true artist shows itself, in knowing what details to present and what to omit.
It also gave rise to many curious discrepancies, some of which were recognized as being due to selective absorption, while others are probably to be explained by imperfections in the methods of experiment adopted.
We now know that the radiation from polished platinum is of a highly selective character, and varies more nearly as the fifth power of the absolute temperature.
The most obvious difficulties in the way of this theory arise from the fact that nearly all radiation is more or less selective in character, as regards the quality and frequency of the rays emitted and absorbed.
They confirmed Tyndall's important result that the absorption does not diminish in proportion to the pressure, being much greater in proportion for smaller pressures in consequence of the selective character of the effect.
But owing to the highly selective character of the radiation and absorption, it is impossible to give any general relation between the thickness of the absorbing plate or layer and the proportion of the total energy absorbed.
They found that quartz and fluorite possessed the property of selective reflection for rays of wave-length 8.
Honey-bees: their Origin; Reasons for no Selective Work; Habits of the Species.
With each step in this succession of changes the readiness with which the species responds to selective care increases.
Illustration: Turtle Doves] Selective breeding of pigeons began in India, as the records seem to show, more than two thousand years ago.
The success which we have obtained with this animal has been accomplished by a selective process, but one which has been almost as blind in its operation as the choice which acts in the natural world.
With such a basis for the selective art as the variations of this insect afford, there seems no reason why it should not afford a good field for the work of the breeder's art.
His subtle selective instinct penetrates the vocabulary for the one word he wants, as the long, slender bill of those birds dives deep into the flower for its drop of honey.
For while production has been taken from the home, the selective influence of the family over production through its direction of consumption has proportionally increased.
In other words, color is due to selective absorption reflection, or transmission.
Welsbach used these in his mantle, whose efficiency is due partly to this selective property.
This property of selectiveradiation is possessed by some elements to a slight degree, but if treatment could enhance this property, luminous efficiency would be greatly increased.
The counsel ofSelective Parenthood is dangerous doctrine, indeed.
Selective Parenthood makes, moreover, for the elimination of those valuable object-lessons of inherited defect and disease, whereby Nature points her inestimable morals of healthy and disciplined living.
Finally the three chums were on their way for the fighting front with thousands of fellow soldiers, some being volunteers and others of the selective service.
The selective service law solved many problems, but Noddy's was not among them.
What we have to ascertain is, that the principle of selective secretion is generally applicable to Eliminative remedies.
It is true that measurements of adults do not tell us what might be the case with infants, who have not yet been subjected to the formative and selective influences of environment and training.
But, whatever be the underlying educational philosophy, the selective value of the curriculum is an inescapable fact.
They take the rational, selective form of fitting the individual to the place for which his natural aptitudes best adapt him, so far as these facts of adaptability are discoverable, and so far as the environment is plastic or optional.
These two principles of taxation are similar to those applied in the selective draft for war service.
Thus the selective draft is an example of government organizing our national manpower for more effective teamwork and with less hardship than if it had been left to voluntary action.
By our selective draft, on the other hand, while every man was expected to do his share, each was selected as far as possible to do the thing which he could do best and therefore which would best serve the country.
It is considered a great contribution to wireless telegraphy and establishes it on a commercial basis, and selective signaling is solved and trans-Atlantic transmission will be easy.
I am willing to admit that "inherent selective and directive force" is exhibited in organic and inorganic matter.
The current impulse, being very powerful, will enable messages to be sent to great distances, and as the number of oscillations per second can be controlled, this permits of selective signaling.
There is "an intelligence or selective power" in matter.
Pin-point concentration is given as the reason for this selective procedure which narrows the horizon of the subject to what the hypnotist (or he, himself) is saying, screening out all other stimuli.
By selective planting we mean choosing the best plants and planting the seed from these plants with a view of improving the yield.
The tree is indigenous to America and, in contrast to the Persian, has only decades, rather than centuries of selective breeding behind it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
