Natural-selection Synonyms

In evolution, the process by which certain individuals of a species, having characters that help them adapt to their specific environment, tend to leave more progeny and transmit their characters, while other individuals of the same species, less able to adapt, tend to leave fewer progeny or to die out: over the course of generations, the gene pool of the species comes to reflect this adaptation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. survival-of-the-fittest
  2. artificial-selection
  3. darwinism
  4. adaptation
  5. survival
  6. biological evolution
  7. evolution
  8. law-of-the-jungle
  9. natural law
  10. phylogeny
  11. social-darwinism
  12. social evolution
  13. theory of evolution
  14. selection

Natural-selection Sentence Examples

  • The natural selection process is survival of the fittest.

  • The process of natural selection allows the fittest creatures to survive and continue to reproduce.

  • In conclusion the theory of natural selection does render the design argument worthless.

  • Sexual Selection - selection driven by the competition for mates, considered an adjunct to natural selection.

  • These collective systems have evolved by means of natural SELECTION to exhibit striking problem-solving capacities, while functioning within a complex, dynamic ENVIRONMENT.

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