natural selection
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To understand what might have prevented dinosaurs from becoming smaller, the researchers turned to mathematical models designed to predict how natural selection influences body size.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
He argues that, as natural selection has shaped our brains and influenced our actions, the way we guide and govern behavior should be approached with our evolutionary roots in mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They make it clear that it excludes neither sex-biased demographic processes nor more complex scenarios in which natural selection, differential migrations, and sex asymmetries may all have acted together.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
It isn’t quite natural selection, but it isn’t far off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
In short, diseases represent evolution in progress, and microbes adapt by natural selection to new hosts and vectors.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
