natural selection
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Charles Darwin, with his ideas of undirected variation and natural selection, described what was really happening.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
That was assumed to be the result of a natural selection.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
The theoretical approach, which studies human behavior, cognition and emotions as products of natural selection, depicts relationship formation as sales-like, highly gendered and strategy-based.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
Think of our astonishing good fortune to live on a planet capable of sustaining life for 4 billion years, allowing natural selection to create what Darwin called “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful.”
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
Those invaders get winnowed by natural selection, and only a few of them succeed in establishing themselves as human diseases.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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