natural selection

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That was assumed to be the result of a natural selection.

From Barron's

Evolution occurs through random variation and natural selection: The strong survive and reproduce; the weak perish.

From The Wall Street Journal

Under this view, mutations are usually neither helpful nor harmful, allowing them to spread quietly without being strongly favored or rejected by natural selection.

From Science Daily

That excess became smaller in older, more common variants, indicating that natural selection gradually removes these mutations.

From Science Daily

"This makes the initial stages of the domestication process a process of pure natural selection."

From BBC