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    Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the...
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    Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) is...
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  • In natural selection, negative selection or purifying selection is the selective removal of alleles that are deleterious. This can result in stabilising...
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  • Natural Selection 2 is a multiplayer video game which combines first-person shooter and real-time strategy rules. It is set in a science fiction universe...
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    successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics...
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    from a process he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding...
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  • Cosmological natural selection, also called the fecund universes, is a hypothesis proposed by Lee Smolin intended as a scientific alternative to the anthropic...
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  • Natural Selection is a modification for the video game Half-Life. Its concept is a mixture of the first-person shooter and real-time strategy game genres...
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  • Look up natural selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Natural selection is the process by which individual organisms with favorable traits are...
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    Natural Selection is the manuscript in which Charles Darwin drafted his planned species book to publish his theory of natural selection. He had noted...
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    cosmological natural selection, also called the fecund universes theory, suggests that a process analogous to biological natural selection applies at the...
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  • Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams...
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  • Natural Selection is the third album by American rock band Fuel, released on September 23, 2003, by Epic Records. Preceding the album's release "Won't...
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  • Natural Selection is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Chad Scheifele, and starring Mason Dye, Ryan Munzert, Anthony Michael Hall, Katherine...
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  • Natural Selection is a 2011 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Robbie Pickering. It stars Rachael Harris, Matt O'Leary, John Diehl, and...
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  • Theory of Natural Selection is a book by Ronald Fisher which combines Mendelian genetics with Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, with Fisher...
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    Animal coloration provided important early evidence for evolution by natural selection, at a time when little direct evidence was available. Three major...
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    Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as reproductive success...
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    Rife (2023) and Walking Red Flag (2023), his 2023 Netflix specials Natural Selection and Lucid, as well as his previous recurring role on the sketch improv...
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  • Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection is an idea about genetic variance in population genetics developed by the statistician and evolutionary...
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    articulated by Charles Darwin who wrote of a "second agency" other than natural selection, in which competition between mate candidates could lead to speciation...
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  • Look up selection in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Selection may refer to: Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution...
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    details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. Darwin used the word "descent"...
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    evolutionary change over time, arguing against mutations acted on by natural selection as the most important driver of evolutionary change. This distinguishes...
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    Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population genetics. It also related the...
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    genetic variation of a population drifts randomly over generations, natural selection gradually leads traits to become more or less common based on the...
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    living things are explained by the biological processes of natural selection and sexual selection. Studies of pattern formation make use of computer models...
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    that natural selection can be seen within a single lifetime, or even within a couple of years. Charles Darwin originally thought that natural selection was...
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    common it will become in the population. Disruptive selection is a specific type of natural selection that actively selects against the intermediate in...
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    debates over adaptationism, the unit of selection, and the relative importance of genetic drift versus natural selection as causes of evolution. In the late...
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