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- |Darwin’s clear elucidation of natural selection launched a revolutionary new paradigm in biology wherein organismal traits ...he 'fit' between the species and environment. Thus biologists characterize natural selection as increasing the 'fitness' of the species, meaning its better 'adaptation'49 KB (7,544 words) - 04:34, 19 September 2013
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- ** [[Karl Popper|Popper K]] (1978) Natural selection and the emergence of mind. ''Dialectica'' 32:339-55. See [http://www.geocit ...s|Williams GC]] (1966) ''[[Adaptation and Natural Selection|Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought]]'' Oxford University Pres2 KB (302 words) - 06:26, 14 January 2009
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- ...tion by Natural Selection] - An introduction to the logic of the theory of natural selection * [http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/futuyma.html#learnmore ''Natural selection: how evolution works''] Interview with [[Douglas J. Futuyma]]822 bytes (103 words) - 19:39, 13 September 2007
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- ...tion by Natural Selection] - An introduction to the logic of the theory of natural selection * [http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/futuyma.html#learnmore ''Natural selection: how evolution works''] Interview with [[Douglas J. Futuyma]]822 bytes (103 words) - 19:39, 13 September 2007
- ...1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of [[natural selection]].141 bytes (15 words) - 03:53, 9 June 2008
- ...breed]] is a variety of a [[domestic]] [[animal]] that occurred through [[natural selection|natural]], rather than [[artificial selection]]. Domesticated animals, such532 bytes (79 words) - 01:30, 11 November 2007
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- A type of [[natural selection]] due to within-sex competition for successful [[mating]].124 bytes (15 words) - 05:59, 9 February 2010
- Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection.124 bytes (16 words) - 02:40, 20 May 2008
- ...ook by [[Charles Darwin]] expounding the theory of [[evolution]] through [[natural selection]]136 bytes (15 words) - 13:06, 5 February 2009
- ...highly influential book, ''Adaptation and Natural Selection'', argued for natural selection acting at the level of the gene or the individual organism as opposed to th684 bytes (98 words) - 17:02, 10 November 2010
- ...– 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independently of Darwin.159 bytes (17 words) - 20:56, 30 October 2010
- Describes the event of a [[trait]] being selected by the mechanism of natural selection.124 bytes (17 words) - 05:08, 23 May 2008
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- ...highly influential book, ''Adaptation and Natural Selection'', argued for natural selection acting at the level of the gene or the individual organism as opposed to th970 bytes (116 words) - 17:49, 10 November 2010
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- ...nosauria and for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.233 bytes (28 words) - 14:48, 25 January 2009
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- ** [[Karl Popper|Popper K]] (1978) Natural selection and the emergence of mind. ''Dialectica'' 32:339-55. See [http://www.geocit ...s|Williams GC]] (1966) ''[[Adaptation and Natural Selection|Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought]]'' Oxford University Pres2 KB (302 words) - 06:26, 14 January 2009
- ...http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/biot.2008.3.1.17 Self-organization Proposes What Natural Selection Disposes.] ''Biological Theory'' 3(1):17-29. ...eber B. (1995) ''Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | [http://www.amazon.com/Darwinism-Evolving-Dy2 KB (245 words) - 20:04, 30 March 2010
- ...jor type (see [[Old earth creationism]]; or the belief that [[evolution by natural selection]] was the indirect means by which God created the variety of life. ...e into being. They deny the [[theory of evolution]], on the grounds that [[natural selection]] is not a sufficient creative force, or on Biblical grounds; or on both gr2 KB (245 words) - 01:14, 21 February 2010
- ...gene]]s, subject to universal [[Evolution|evolutionary forces]], such as [[natural selection]], the replicators subject to random variation, and to non-random selection864 bytes (122 words) - 11:20, 13 June 2010
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- ...ators, analogs of genes, subject to universal evolutionary forces, such as natural selection, the replicators subject to random variation, and to non-random selection f998 bytes (148 words) - 23:00, 13 June 2010
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- ...ution by Natural Selection] — An introduction to the logic of evolution by natural selection3 KB (347 words) - 17:33, 1 December 2012
- ** <b><u>Excerpt:</u></b> Darwin's elaboration of diversification and natural selection as organizingprinciples of life inspired early immunologists,helping them s1 KB (162 words) - 16:19, 24 July 2009
- *{{CZ:Ref:Hamilton 1966 The moulding of senescence by natural selection}}453 bytes (61 words) - 14:51, 27 May 2010
- ...lutionary mechanisms—[[mutation]], [[migration]], [[genetic drift]], and [[natural selection]].<ref>[http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VIADefinition.shtml Wh1 KB (169 words) - 06:31, 31 May 2009
- ...of animal life. In the nineteenth century, accompanying the discovery of [[natural selection]] by [[Charles Darwin]], the study of animals became a professional scienti707 bytes (89 words) - 18:16, 20 December 2008
- ...al of the Likeliest? — ''Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself'' — A Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS463 bytes (63 words) - 20:17, 20 October 2011
- |13. Natural selection modifies the genetic basis of organism design |13. Natural selection procedures modify the software that specifies a machine design2 KB (278 words) - 00:32, 1 April 2008
- In biology, for ''survival of the fittest'' see [[Natural selection]]757 bytes (97 words) - 19:10, 25 April 2010
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- ...environmental conditions — the interaction of self-organization and natural selection reciprocal in nature and, through evolution, determining of the global patt ...opose a view according to which the relation between self-organization and natural selection can be divided into three stages:8 KB (1,083 words) - 17:39, 25 November 2013
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- * 1859: ''[[The Origin of Species|On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life]]''6 KB (796 words) - 06:05, 9 June 2009
- ...in evolutionary biology. It sought to integrate Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection with the development of population genetics by R. A. Fisher, Sewall Wright,3 KB (382 words) - 22:27, 14 September 2013
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- ...ublished in 1859.<ref>Darwin, C. 1859. ''The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.'' In: Burr ...at not only physical traits, such as the length of a limb, are affected by natural selection, but also the mental capacities of animals. He gives the interesting exampl6 KB (1,043 words) - 23:43, 5 December 2010
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- Breeders use [[artificial selection]], as opposed to [[natural selection]], terms first employed by [[Charles Darwin]] in his seminal work ''[[On th2 KB (275 words) - 17:57, 9 August 2008
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- ...guage]] as being an evolved capacity and explores in depth the reasons why natural selection would choose to develop the brain's linguistic systems. Pinker asserts that1,020 bytes (145 words) - 08:53, 30 June 2023
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- ...the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors." ...oretical Biology in Berlin. The FAQ assumes a basic knowledge of genes and natural selection. Its purpose is to outline the foundations of evolutionary psychology. Thes4 KB (629 words) - 21:56, 17 August 2009
- ...as [[reproductive success]], a ''sine qua non'' of evolution by means of [[natural selection]].2 KB (309 words) - 21:53, 19 June 2010
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- ...perties refer to those of the biosphere, there is no comparable process of natural selection choosing among competing biospheres. What properties arise are hence largel :*How does robustness trade off against adaptability? How does natural selection deal with environmental noise and the consequent uncertainty at diverse sca7 KB (981 words) - 13:26, 22 August 2013
- ...ce in adaptation, by the Baldwin effect or in any other particular way, is natural selection.</p>4 KB (605 words) - 19:06, 13 January 2012
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- ...orrection of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.</blockquot ...difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.</blo5 KB (754 words) - 22:00, 21 October 2010
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- ...se [[life]] which shaped [[Charles Darwin]]'s theory of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]]. Some of the [[Andes]] [[mountain]] range also runs through mainland Ecua1 KB (188 words) - 12:03, 9 September 2020
- ...tion''' is a trait of an organism that is maintained or spread by either [[natural selection]] or [[indirect selection]]. Such a characteristic does so by confering a2 KB (368 words) - 18:31, 1 June 2008
- ...lace's]] theory of [[Evolution|evolution]] by means of [[Natural selection|natural selection]], or [[survival of the fittest]], aptly illustrates the co-dependence of i5 KB (690 words) - 17:36, 28 June 2012
- After publication of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, the importance of individual efforts in the generation of adaptation was c4 KB (550 words) - 19:51, 23 November 2007
- *Smith CH, Beccaloni G. (editors) (2008) ''Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace''. Oxford: Oxf ...uralists of the nineteenth century. Tracing step-by-step his discovery of natural selection—a piece of scientific detective work as revolutionary in its implications10 KB (1,500 words) - 22:31, 13 December 2011
- '' See: [[Evolution]], [[Natural selection]] ...The key to descent with modification: heritable variation operated on by [[natural selection]].11 KB (1,662 words) - 21:38, 20 March 2011
- ...at obeys the laws of natural selection exactly. The theory of evolution by natural selection is neutral regarding the differences between memes and genes; these are jus Proponents suggest that memes evolve through a process akin to biological natural selection. This would be like [[biological evolution]]. A meme would be transmitted7 KB (1,018 words) - 22:45, 13 June 2010
- ...(1992), ''Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection'', [[MIT Press]]. ISBN 0-262-11170-54 KB (585 words) - 13:56, 26 September 2007
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- ...all humans are vulnerable to each disease. It asks how it is possible that natural selection can shape the eye or heart or brain but cannot eliminate our vulnerabilitie4 KB (701 words) - 15:44, 27 August 2008
- ...[gene frequencies]] among populations as a result of the interaction of [[natural selection]], [[mutation]], migration and genetic drift. The work of Fisher, Wright, ...quency|allele frequencies]] or the average phenotypes of the population. [[Natural selection]] would lead to a population climbing the nearest peak, while [[genetic dri7 KB (990 words) - 08:51, 30 June 2023
- * Caporale, LH (2003) Natural selection and emergence of mutation phenotype: An Update of the Evolutionary Synthesi2 KB (301 words) - 10:28, 12 October 2007
- ...study of ''[[On the Origin of Species]]''. Lyell accepted the theory of [[natural selection]] as the root of the evolutionary process and extrapolated on the subject i5 KB (834 words) - 14:01, 20 December 2010
- ...left up to the dogs. An example of a dog breed that is the result of both natural selection in an isolated area and selective breeding by dog fanciers is the [[Newfoun8 KB (1,298 words) - 03:02, 8 June 2009
- ...organisms, but they are also “systems capable of evolving by variation and natural selection: self-reproducing entities, whose forms and functions are adapted to their4 KB (502 words) - 20:19, 28 February 2018
- ...the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors." <ref>[h7 KB (1,069 words) - 20:03, 22 July 2008
- ...ction of successful feeding, reproductive and dispersal behaviour. Through natural selection the planet's species have continuously adapted to change through variation11 KB (1,536 words) - 09:24, 2 March 2024
- ...al of the Likeliest? — ''Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself'' — 2007 Essay from PLoS Biology, by John Whi ...i-evolutionists is that the universe's tendency toward disorder means that natural selection cannot make living things more complex. The usual counter to this argument23 KB (3,582 words) - 13:26, 22 August 2013
- '''Description:''' This publication suggested [[natural selection]] as the cause of [[evolution]]. Wallace was afraid to publish his work due ...his [[theory]] that [[organism]]s gradually [[evolution|evolve]] through [[natural selection]]. It was first published on [[November 24]], 1859 and immediately sold out19 KB (2,662 words) - 11:46, 2 February 2023
- ...f evolution driven by natural selection is incomplete (see [[Evolution and natural selection]]). However, others have argued that endosymbiosis constitutes slavery rat8 KB (1,150 words) - 15:22, 18 August 2009
- ...ng genes that confer some survival or reproductive benefit. In such cases, natural selection tends to preserve the integrity of these sequences.19 KB (2,833 words) - 22:11, 14 February 2010
- ...in]]'s books, published in 1859, is ''On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.'' Today15 KB (2,394 words) - 12:02, 18 May 2023
- ...speaking of JBS's pluralistic synthesis of population genetics. Not just 'natural selection', as Gould interprets Haldane's writings. Gould's book: Stephen Jay Gould,3 KB (502 words) - 19:20, 1 May 2008
- ...ons, ultimately, are the only source of [[heritable variation]] on which [[natural selection]] and other [[evolution]]ary processes acts. Without mutation, there are no ...o not affect organismal [[fitness]]; they are, by definition, invisible to natural selection.13 KB (2,019 words) - 00:14, 11 November 2007
- ...ing one or more of the many types of [[adaptation]], including Darwinian [[natural selection]]. Pioneer elucidator of complex adaptive systems, John Holland, describes4 KB (533 words) - 16:37, 21 June 2013
- ...inters, where only the strongest and most adaptable cats survived. Through natural selection (as opposed to selective breeding), the Maine Coon developed into a large, ...on were short-haired, but that some of their kittens were long-haired, and natural selection favored these to survive and breed.9 KB (1,483 words) - 10:27, 27 June 2023
- ...to evolution might be viewed as a fine-tuning of characteristics guided by natural selection, Tattersall takes a more generalist view. Individual organisms are mind-bog7 KB (964 words) - 19:50, 11 October 2008
- ...d), diverge from their source gene pool over time through genetic drift or natural selection.6 KB (908 words) - 09:16, 2 March 2024
- ...;proposed, and described in manuscript, the process of [[Natural selection|natural selection]] as a mechanism of biological [[Evolution|evolution]] before [[Charles Dar ...nalysis of the Darwin-Wallace Papers and the Development of the Concept of Natural Selection.] ''Theory Biosci.'' 22: 343-359.35 KB (5,496 words) - 21:48, 13 December 2011
- ...cation. These categories are not mutually exclusive and it is likely that natural selection and selective breeding have both played some role in the processes of domes The domestication of [[wheat]] provides an example of how natural selection and mutation can play a key role in the process. Wild wheat falls to the g18 KB (2,690 words) - 10:14, 26 March 2024
- |Darwin’s clear elucidation of natural selection launched a revolutionary new paradigm in biology wherein organismal traits ...he 'fit' between the species and environment. Thus biologists characterize natural selection as increasing the 'fitness' of the species, meaning its better 'adaptation'49 KB (7,544 words) - 04:34, 19 September 2013
- ...for evolution as primarily a matter of [[gene]]s being the main unit of [[natural selection]], rather than individuals, groups or [[species]]. Dawkins, following the w4 KB (670 words) - 08:50, 18 October 2013
- ...t, MA) discusses the potential of exploiting evolutionary processes (e.g., natural selection) to create intelligence in machines, and he explores whether evolved artifi9 KB (1,250 words) - 19:40, 18 October 2013
- ...ood these variations as a mark of individual differences that related to [[natural selection]].<ref>Garrod AE (1923) [http://www.esp.org/books/garrod/inborn-errors/facs4 KB (685 words) - 03:24, 14 October 2013
- ...that conventional [[biology|biological]] theory of [[evolution]] through [[natural selection]] cannot explain the origin of many highly complex features of living [[org ...that they have been built purposefully rather than having been evolved by natural selection is a natural one. Some modern proponents of ID have accordingly broached th41 KB (6,423 words) - 10:03, 14 February 2021
- ...sses in natural populations would now be seen as consistent with Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian mechanisms of inheritance, and the behavior of genes in popul ...lation (causing a genetic bottleneck), genetic drift (random fixation) and natural selection (due to a different set of selection pressures on these islands) would not16 KB (2,587 words) - 16:17, 24 September 2007
- ...d evolutionary explanation for senescence is that it never gets exposed to natural selection because environmental hazards kill all individuals before the age at which :*'''<U>Abstract:</U>''' While evolution by natural selection has long been a foundation for biomedical science, it has recently gained n31 KB (4,553 words) - 18:17, 18 July 2016
- ...mal or human attacks was the fiercest one. Thus the African bee has been [[natural selection|naturally selected]] for ferocity. ...le of beginning a new colony. For this behavior to have survived through [[natural selection]] it likely has some utility to the survival and propagation of the sub-spe15 KB (2,335 words) - 14:29, 10 March 2024
- ...n]] of the information by means of darwinian-wallacean [[Natural selection|natural selection]], or survival of the fittest replicators, might occur in the prevailing en ...compensations might ensure the dominance of organic living systems, given natural selection, and its enabling of the exploitation of diverse environments.17 KB (2,563 words) - 15:36, 28 June 2012