natural selection
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n. (u.)Uncountable NounThe process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
Natural selection is a key mechanism of evolution.
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The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Alfred Russel Wallace to be exact, a British naturalist who you might have also heard of as the co-discoverer of natural selection.
Alfred Russel Wallace to be exact, a British naturalist who you might have also heard of as the co-discoverer of natural selection.
- you might have also heard of as the co-discoverer of natural selection.
you might have also heard of as the co-discoverer of natural selection.
Evolution Can't Explain Your Grandma
- But hey, just because natural selection might not have made all of our grandmas for some special reason, that doesn't make your grandma any less special.
But hey, just because natural selection might not have made all of our grandmas for some special reason, that doesn't make your grandma any less special.
- Just because natural selection might not have made
Just because natural selection might not have made
A New Way to Understand Cancer
- Unfortunately, natural selection spoils your victory.
Unfortunately, natural selection spoils your victory.
Amazing Earth Facts To Blow Your Mind
- a product of natural selection.
a product of natural selection.
War & Human Nature: Crash Course World History 204
- You know, if you're in a structurally privileged position in the social order, it's easy enough to be like, "Huh, I wonder how I got here." Probably natural selection.
You know, if you're in a structurally privileged position in the social order, it's easy enough to be like, "Huh, I wonder how I got here." Probably natural selection.
- Probably natural selection."
Probably natural selection."
Richard Dawkins - The Genius of Charles Darwin - Part 1: Life, Darwin & Everything [+Subs]
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- The idea is evolution by natural selection, and the genius who thought of it was Charles Darwin.
The idea is evolution by natural selection, and the genius who thought of it was Charles Darwin.
- The idea is evolution by natural selection.
The idea is evolution by natural selection.
We are the Gods Now - Jason Silva at Sydney Opera House
- Perhaps by reverse engineering life, we have decommissioned natural selection, as Eduardo Wilson says.
Perhaps by reverse engineering life, we have decommissioned natural selection, as Eduardo Wilson says.
- we have decommissioned natural selection,
we have decommissioned natural selection,
The history of natural selection, in 7 minutes | Paul Nurse
- The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.
The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.
- The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.
The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.
Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species"
- That many engrave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through natural selection, I do not deny.
That many engrave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through natural selection, I do not deny.
- through natural selection, I do not deny. I have endeavoured to give to them their full
through natural selection, I do not deny. I have endeavoured to give to them their full
The evolutionary logic of survival and death, in 54 minutes | Sean B. Carroll: Full Interview
- It kind of works like a staircase: chance invents, and natural selection propagates that chance invention.
It kind of works like a staircase: chance invents, and natural selection propagates that chance invention.
- Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.
Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.