natural selection
"Natural selection is the process by which certain traits or characteristics that provide advantages for an organism's survival and reproduction become more common in a population over time, while other less favorable traits become less common or eventually disappear."
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- adaptation
- adaptation to the environment
- artificial selection
- baldwin effect
- biological imperative
- camouflage
- common descent
- comparative anatomy
- convergent evolution
- darwinian evolution
- darwinism
- divergent evolution
- ecological niche
- evolution
- evolutionary medicine
- evolutionary psychology
- evolutionary theory
- extinction
- fitness
- gene pool
- genetic adaptation
- genetic algorithms
- genetic assimilation
- genetic drift
- genetic evolution
- genetic variation
- genome evolution
- microevolution
- mimicry
- morphological evolution
- mutation
- population genetics
- selective pressure
- self-preservation
- sexual selection
- social darwinism
- speciation
- spontaneous order
- survival of the fittest
- transformism
- use and disuse
- vestigial organs