natural selection
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It isn’t quite natural selection, but it isn’t far off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
They simply drift through nature without attracting much attention from natural selection.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
That was assumed to be the result of a natural selection.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
The theoretical approach, which studies human behavior, cognition and emotions as products of natural selection, depicts relationship formation as sales-like, highly gendered and strategy-based.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Those principles of crop development by artificial selection still serve as our most understandable model of the origin of species by natural selection.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
