natural selection Meaning & Definition

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Examples of natural selection

  • The academic struggle often seems to resemble natural selection, where the fiercest competition is between conspecifics, rather than between different species.

  • Is there any alternative to such a reward/ punishment - based system in this evolution by natural selection situation?

  • If cultural innovations modify natural selection pressures, then genetic change resulting from modified natural selection is likely to follow.

  • Chapter 4 also contains a good deal of discussion of the role of natural selection in evolution.

  • Putting natural information to one side, what is mentally represented is only what natural selection has found it was useful to have represented.

  • Therefore, natural selection should tend to eliminate it.

  • And it's not by chance; it's by natural selection.

  • The concept of adaptive effect focuses attention on how the history of natural selection affected a current trait.

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Translations of natural selection In Other Languages

  • 中文繁体

    (物種的)自然選擇,物競天擇…

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  • 中文简体

    (物种的)自然选择,物竞天择…

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  • Português

    seleção natural…

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  • Polski

    selekcja naturalna…

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  • Türk dili

    doğal eleme yöntemi, zayıfın yok olup, güçlünün var olduğu tabiî sonuç…

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  • русский язык

    естественный отбор…

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