Definitions from Wiktionary (natural selection)
▸ noun: (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
evolution by natural selection,
cosmological natural selection,
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection,
Natural Selection 2,
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection,
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▸ noun: (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
Similar:
survival of the fittest,
selection,
survival,
sexual selection,
selective advantage,
unnatural selection,
evolutionary theory,
supernatural selection,
group selection,
Darwinism,
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evolutive,
genealogical,
darwinian,
evolutional,
eugenical,
phenetic,
sympatric,
derived,
coevolved,
polyhistoric,
basal
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