NOUN
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
How To Use natural selection In A Sentence
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- We are now told, with equal wonder and admiration, that natural selection is the agent of exquisite design.
- He experimented with carnivorous plants and orchids in the greenhouses, and studied natural selection on a special patch of weeds. Times, Sunday Times
- There was otherwise only weak evidence that natural selection might be operative at the HLA loci, and this effect (if true) appeared localized.
- It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory.
- The real analogy behind natural selection is the work of the natural historian.
- The order mammalia is the resultant of a primary sex-distinction developed by natural selection; but the gorgeous plumage of the peacock's tail is a secondary sex-distinction developed by sexual selection. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
- And the pressure of natural selection on the cuckoo is considerably greater than that on the host species.
- Thus, these proteins could be exapted by natural selection for clotting. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
- The implication is that it is somehow self-evident that anything so wonderful as this could not possibly have evolved by natural selection.