natural selection
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Conscious feelings have more efficacy than nonconscious processes, meaning that once they emerged, they conferred so great an advantage that natural selection had to favor them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Space and energy are finite, so natural selection may favor whichever wiring system is most useful for survival in a particular environment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 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
Galton’s idea was simple: he would mimic the mechanism of natural selection.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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