natural selection
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Those behavioral and ecological differences were gradually reinforced by natural selection across their genomes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
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
Evolution by natural selection is such a familiar concept that it can be easy to forget it describes the present as well as the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
While evolution lacks “intention,” the author observes, natural selection is “relentlessly, exquisitely” effective at enabling life to adapt to a range of environmental conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Its founding tenets were borrowed from Darwin—but they grafted the logic of natural selection onto human societies.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
