Alphabetical
natural selection
[noun]
The process whereby characteristics that promote survival and reproduction are passed on to future generations, so these characteristics become more frequent in the population over time.
Appears in modules:
- Adaptation The case of penguins
- Animal Behavior Causes and approaches to studying behavior
- Animal Ecology Competition, predation, and cooperation
- Charles Darwin I The Origin of Species
- Charles Darwin II Natural selection
- Charles Darwin III Descent with modification
- Future of Human Evolution Artificial selection and transhumanism
- Origins of Life I Early ideas and experiments
- Origins of Life II Primeval environments and the origins of RNA
- Population Genetics Hardy-Weinberg and genetic drift
- Taxonomy I What's in a name?
- Theories, Hypotheses, and Laws Definitions, examples, and their roles in science
- Tracking Human Ancestry The Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA
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