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...ators, analogs of genes, subject to universal evolutionary forces, such as natural selection, the replicators subject to random variation, and to non-random selection f

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...ution by Natural Selection] — An introduction to the logic of evolution by natural selection

** <b><u>Excerpt:</u></b>&nbsp;Darwin's elaboration of diversification and natural selection as organizingprinciples of life inspired early immunologists,helping them s

*{{CZ:Ref:Hamilton 1966 The moulding of senescence by natural selection}}

...lutionary mechanisms—[[mutation]], [[migration]], [[genetic drift]], and [[natural selection]].<ref>[http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VIADefinition.shtml Wh

...of animal life. In the nineteenth century, accompanying the discovery of [[natural selection]] by [[Charles Darwin]], the study of animals became a professional scienti

...al of the Likeliest? &mdash; ''Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection &mdash; and life itself'' &mdash; A Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS

|13. Natural selection modifies the genetic basis of organism design |13. Natural selection procedures modify the software that specifies a machine design

In biology, for ''survival of the fittest'' see [[Natural selection]]

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...environmental conditions &mdash; the interaction of self-organization and natural selection reciprocal in nature and, through evolution, determining of the global patt ...opose a view according to which the relation between self-organization and natural selection can be divided into three stages:

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* 1859: ''[[The Origin of Species|On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life]]''

...in evolutionary biology. It sought to integrate Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection with the development of population genetics by R. A. Fisher, Sewall Wright,

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...ublished in 1859.<ref>Darwin, C. 1859. ''The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.'' In: Burr ...at not only physical traits, such as the length of a limb, are affected by natural selection, but also the mental capacities of animals. He gives the interesting exampl

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Breeders use [[artificial selection]], as opposed to [[natural selection]], terms first employed by [[Charles Darwin]] in his seminal work ''[[On th

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...guage]] as being an evolved capacity and explores in depth the reasons why natural selection would choose to develop the brain's linguistic systems. Pinker asserts that

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...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." ...oretical Biology in Berlin. The FAQ assumes a basic knowledge of genes and natural selection. Its purpose is to outline the foundations of evolutionary psychology. Thes

...as [[reproductive success]], a ''sine qua non'' of evolution by means of [[natural selection]].

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...perties refer to those of the biosphere, there is no comparable process of natural selection choosing among competing biospheres. What properties arise are hence largel :*How does robustness trade off against adaptability? How does natural selection deal with environmental noise and the consequent uncertainty at diverse sca

...ce in adaptation, by the Baldwin effect or in any other particular way, is natural selection.</p>

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...orrection of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.</blockquot ...difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.</blo

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...se [[life]] which shaped [[Charles Darwin]]'s theory of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]]. Some of the [[Andes]] [[mountain]] range also runs through mainland Ecua

...tion''' is a trait of an organism that is maintained or spread by either [[natural selection]] or [[indirect selection]]. Such a characteristic does so by confering a

...lace's]] theory of [[Evolution|evolution]] by means of [[Natural selection|natural selection]], or [[survival of the fittest]], aptly illustrates the co-dependence of i

After publication of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, the importance of individual efforts in the generation of adaptation was c

*Smith CH, Beccaloni G. (editors) (2008) ''Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace''. Oxford: Oxf ...uralists of the nineteenth century. Tracing step-by-step his discovery of natural selection—a piece of scientific detective work as revolutionary in its implications

''&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;See: [[Evolution]], [[Natural selection]] ...The key to descent with modification: heritable variation operated on by [[natural selection]].

...at obeys the laws of natural selection exactly. The theory of evolution by natural selection is neutral regarding the differences between memes and genes; these are jus Proponents suggest that memes evolve through a process akin to biological natural selection. This would be like [[biological evolution]]. A meme would be transmitted

...(1992), ''Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection'', [[MIT Press]]. ISBN 0-262-11170-5

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