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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Evolution (redirect from Natural selection and evolution)
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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Charles Darwin (section Malthus and natural selection)
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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Lee Smolin (redirect from Cosmic natural selection)
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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Alternatives to Darwinian evolution (redirect from Alternatives to natural selection)
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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Introduction to evolution (section Natural selection)
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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Patterns in nature (redirect from Natural patterns)
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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