0 the process that results in the continued existence of only the types of animals and plants that are best able to produce young or new plants in the conditions in which they live --
1 the theory that organisms with characteristics that allow them to live successfully in a particular environment will reproduce organisms with the same characteristics --
The evolution of recombination removing the limits to natural selection.
If genome rearrangements are common and subject to natural selection, this can leave important signatures on patterns of nucleotide variation.
That is, natural selection will cause plots of to curve upwards over time.
Natural selection also would have favored anorexia during times of food-related travel.
While natural selection acts on phenotypes, these phenotypes reflect the underlying physiology.
Adaptation is a good concept because all adaptations are explained through natural selection.
For some reason we have conceived of natural selection as a single force and evolution as a single historical strand.
The concept of adaptive effect focuses attention on how the history of natural selection affected a current trait.
