natural selection
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In theory, natural selection might be expected to gradually remove traits that produce such disadvantages.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 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
They are often more sensitive to incompatibilities and to natural selection.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
They make it clear that it excludes neither sex-biased demographic processes nor more complex scenarios in which natural selection, differential migrations, and sex asymmetries may all have acted together.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
And what happened to genes upon natural selection?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
