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biological evolution

NOUN
convergent evolution
Synonyms
WEAK
convergence parallel evolution speciation
NOUN
natural selection
Synonyms
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Darwinian theory Darwinism adaptation artificial selection evolution evolutionism law of the jungle natural law phylogeny social Darwinism social evolution survival of the fittest theory of evolution

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In the paper, Trachenko compares the possibility to biological evolution, where traits emerge independently over time.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

Alignment that functions as a tax on performance will be optimized away, in the same way that biological evolution eliminates traits that cost more than they contribute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

“The country’s scientific community is seriously dismayed to see that the theory of biological evolution … has been dropped,” the Breakthrough Science Society said in a statement.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2023

Shaped across hundreds of thousands of years by biological evolution, our modern human brain struggles to comprehend things outside our familiar naturalistic context.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022

This use and restructuring of previous systems for new purposes is very much like the pattern of biological evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan