What is "non-random"

Usage examples of "non-random".

In essence, it amounts simply to the idea that non-random reproduction, where there is hereditary variation, has consequences that are far-reaching if there is time for them to be cumulative.

Mutation is not systematically biased in the direction of adaptive improvement, and no mechanism is known (to put the point mildly) that could guide mutation in directions that are non-random in this fifth sense.

Mutation is random with respect to adaptive advantage, although it is non-random in all sorts of other respects.

It is selection, and only selection, that directs evolution in directions that are non-random with respect to advantage.

My purpose was to exhibit the power of non-random selection of random variation.

Educated customers realized that with LottoPick, their expected dollar winnings were at least 30 percent higher than with the totally random numbers supplied by the state’s machines (and nearly twice as high as when selecting their kids’ birthdays or some other group of non-random “lucky” numbers).

Caliban and Sycorax seem to have developed methods of information storage and retrieval different from anything on Earth—non-sequential, non-random, I'm tempted to say non-logical.

And then it turned out that the ringers were a consistent result for the woman who wrote the test we happened to use for the non-random input.

They seem to interpret signals we send them, and they stop the power drain on us as soon as they receive a suitable non-random message.

As man had early successes and built specialized canine functions, the non-random selective breeding we use today evolved.

He did not like to think that his life depended on the non-random dispersal of magnetic charges and electrons that made up the program.