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...all humans are vulnerable to each disease. It asks how it is possible that natural selection can shape the eye or heart or brain but cannot eliminate our vulnerabilitie

...[gene frequencies]] among populations as a result of the interaction of [[natural selection]], [[mutation]], migration and genetic drift. The work of Fisher, Wright, ...quency|allele frequencies]] or the average phenotypes of the population. [[Natural selection]] would lead to a population climbing the nearest peak, while [[genetic dri

* Caporale, LH (2003) Natural selection and emergence of mutation phenotype: An Update of the Evolutionary Synthesi

...study of ''[[On the Origin of Species]]''. Lyell accepted the theory of [[natural selection]] as the root of the evolutionary process and extrapolated on the subject i

...left up to the dogs. An example of a dog breed that is the result of both natural selection in an isolated area and selective breeding by dog fanciers is the [[Newfoun

...organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their

...the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors." <ref>[h

...ction of successful feeding, reproductive and dispersal behaviour. Through natural selection the planet's species have continuously adapted to change through variation

...al of the Likeliest? &mdash; ''Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection &mdash; and life itself'' &mdash; 2007 Essay from PLoS Biology, by John Whi ...i-evolutionists is that the universe's tendency toward disorder means that natural selection cannot make living things more complex. The usual counter to this argument

'''Description:''' This publication suggested [[natural selection]] as the cause of [[evolution]]. Wallace was afraid to publish his work due ...his [[theory]] that [[organism]]s gradually [[evolution|evolve]] through [[natural selection]]. It was first published on [[November 24]], 1859 and immediately sold out

...f evolution driven by natural selection is incomplete (see [[Evolution and natural selection]]). However, others have argued that endosymbiosis constitutes slavery rat

...ng genes that confer some survival or reproductive benefit. In such cases, natural selection tends to preserve the integrity of these sequences.

...in]]'s books, published in 1859, is ''On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.'' Today

...speaking of JBS's pluralistic synthesis of population genetics. Not just 'natural selection', as Gould interprets Haldane's writings. Gould's book: Stephen Jay Gould,

...ons, ultimately, are the only source of [[heritable variation]] on which [[natural selection]] and other [[evolution]]ary processes acts. Without mutation, there are no ...o not affect organismal [[fitness]]; they are, by definition, invisible to natural selection.

...ing one or more of the many types of [[adaptation]], including Darwinian [[natural selection]]. Pioneer elucidator of complex adaptive systems, John Holland, describes

...inters, where only the strongest and most adaptable cats survived. Through natural selection (as opposed to selective breeding), the Maine Coon developed into a large, ...on were short-haired, but that some of their kittens were long-haired, and natural selection favored these to survive and breed.

...to evolution might be viewed as a fine-tuning of characteristics guided by natural selection, Tattersall takes a more generalist view. Individual organisms are mind-bog

...d), diverge from their source gene pool over time through genetic drift or natural selection.

...;proposed, and described in manuscript, the process of [[Natural selection|natural selection]] as a mechanism of biological [[Evolution|evolution]] before [[Charles Dar ...nalysis of the Darwin-Wallace Papers and the Development of the Concept of Natural Selection.] ''Theory Biosci.'' 22: 343-359.