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
Gribble thinks part of the explanation may be that natural selection becomes weaker later in an organism's life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
With the rise of Darwinian theory, explanations were recast in terms of natural selection and of evolutionary descent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
