12.Over time, populations evolve as traits that help them survive are typically selected, and traits that make it harder to survive are usually weeded out.
15.Suellen never missed the opportunity to leave the plantation and give herself airs among people who did not know she weeded the garden and made beds.
17.Connections that are used are kept and strengthened, while under-used ones are weeded away, creating a brain that is both fine-tuned to its environment and energy efficient.
18.In these notes, Mr Studwell wanders into the weeds of development (quite literally: Japanese rice is weeded nine times a year, he writes).But he never gets lost.
19.Now there were only the well-bound little-read English Classics, which were weeded out of her father's library to fill up the small book-shelves in the drawing-room.
20.So a bad gene that tends to kill relatively young adults is also likely to indirectly kill their young kids, and thus be weeded from the gene pool, too.