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Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in the relative fitness endowed on them by their own particular complement of observable characteristics. It is a key law or mechanism of evolution which changes the heritable traits characteristic of a population or species over generations. Charles Darwin…

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Arms races

Evolution by means of natural selection

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Natural selection

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related to Further reading · 111
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related to Social and psychological theory · 19
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related to The modern synthesis · 17
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related to Darwin's theory · 16
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related to Fitness · 15
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related to Heritable variation, differential reproduction · 14
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related to Selection, genetic variation, and drift · 12
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related to Speciation · 12
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has impact · 11
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related to Arms races · 11
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Natural selectionis acornerstone of modern biology0.90text
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cold was criticised by Aristotle in Book II of Physicsinstance ofEmpedocles' idea that organisms arose entirely by the incidental workings of causes0.80text
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Darwin clearly stated that selection was only part of the storyinstance ofmechanisms of evolution0.80text
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the peacockinstance ofthe extravagant plumage of some male birds0.80text

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