natural selection
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He said the new findings provide unusually strong evidence that natural selection acted on this gene in the Andes after potato cultivation began.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 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
As he puts it, natural selection blindly explores a vast “design space”—the trillions of trait combinations a species might have—turning up workable solutions that human designers have learned to borrow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
Even Alfred Russel Wallace, the naturalist who had also come up with the theory of natural selection, was a spiritualist, now working on a book that would be published soon—Miracles and Modem Spiritualism.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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