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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
- ...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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- ...ook by [[Charles Darwin]] expounding the theory of [[evolution]] through [[natural selection]]136 bytes (15 words) - 13:06, 5 February 2009
- 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
- ...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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- {{cite journal| author=Hamilton WD| title=The moulding of senescence by natural selection | journal=J Theor Biol | year= 1966 | volume= 12 | issue= 1 | pages= 12-45358 bytes (49 words) - 14:48, 27 May 2010
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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
- ...nd large ignored this challenge. It is widely held that Darwin’s theory of natural selection gives us an adequate, wholly mechanical account of the nature of organisms.1 KB (198 words) - 06:49, 2 January 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
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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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- ==natural selection== Please be aware of the article [[Natural selection]], which is probably the best done of the articles in this part of the fiel6 KB (857 words) - 15:37, 23 December 2011
- ...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
- {{r|Natural selection}}2 KB (206 words) - 14:21, 8 March 2024
- ...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
- ...reviously. Without the geologists coming up with that time scale, Darwin's natural selection can't be taken seriously as a means for origin of species. It also explains1 KB (229 words) - 09:40, 30 May 2007
- 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
- ...leotide|NAD}} {{rpl|NADH}} {{rpl|NADPH}} {{rpl|natural environment}} {{rpl|natural selection}} {{rpl|nephron}} {{rpl|nervous system}} {{rpl|neural plate}} {{rpl|neural7 KB (790 words) - 12:19, 1 July 2009
- *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
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- '' See: [[Evolution]], [[Natural selection]] ...The key to descent with modification: heritable variation operated on by [[natural selection]].11 KB (1,649 words) - 13:38, 16 May 2024
- ...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
- {{r|Natural selection}}3 KB (380 words) - 09:53, 5 August 2023
- ...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
- == Natural selection: biology == This article is about natural selection as a biological theory. The wikipedia article, which was very long, also in29 KB (4,813 words) - 05:55, 14 December 2011
- ...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
- ...ution in the sense of "change", not evolution in the sense of mutation and natural selection, since the latter process cannot occur without ongoing replication. --[[Us3 KB (484 words) - 10:00, 12 November 2007
- ...;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 (5,446 words) - 09:09, 11 May 2024
- ...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
- ...ncrease so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved form4 KB (697 words) - 17:48, 15 November 2016
- ...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
- ...), and for his opposition to [[Charles Darwin]]'s theory of evolution by [[natural selection]]. He gained a reputation as a man who was a stickler for detail, but short12 KB (1,908 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...finitions of modern cells depended on the ability to evolve effectively by natural selection. This transition has been called the [[Darwinian transition]]. ...life forms might be viewed as "[[parasitism]] by default." Therefore the [[natural selection|selection pressure]] on replicator molecules will be lower, as the 'lucky'15 KB (2,298 words) - 21:50, 12 March 2009
- #{{pl|Natural selection}} | align="left" style="vertical-align: top;" | <small>[[Natural selection]] | [[genetic drift]] | [[sexual selection]] | [[speciation]22 KB (3,000 words) - 08:51, 23 March 2021
- ...ural selection/External Links]], [[Natural selection/Related Articles]], [[Natural selection/Unused]], [[Necktie/Approval]], [[Neoapocrypha/Approval]], [[Neoapocrypha/B ...[Name-bearing type]], [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]], [[Natural selection]], [[Necktie]], [[.NET Framework]], [[Netherlands]], [[Neuschwanstein]], [[23 KB (2,434 words) - 12:48, 15 March 2024
- ...ing Mendel's laws of heredity and Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. The book reflects the interest he developed in his father's laboratory and :*He was the first to introduce the concepts of genetic load and the cost of natural selection.22 KB (3,306 words) - 21:10, 17 April 2014
- I am questioning the use of natural selection in a systems article. As you know selection occurs after the fact and has n :I understand your point about selection later. Natural selection does come after random mutation, as well as after natural experiments (e.g.23 KB (3,631 words) - 12:01, 19 May 2011
- ...ts, including predispositions and biases, having evolved under pressure of natural selection during human evolution, reflect adaptations to the particular environments ...psychologists consider central the concept that [[evolution]] by means of natural selection has shaped [[mind]] and [[behavior]]. Though applicable to any [[organism]]47 KB (6,542 words) - 05:48, 20 February 2024
- ...] on land. Those early plants with these [[adaptation]]s were favored by [[natural selection]], and of those plants, those that solved the water problem best tended to6 KB (841 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2009
- ...n]]: [[species]] -- [[speciation]] -- [[adaptation]] -- [[selection]] -- [[natural selection]] -- [[directional selection]] -- [[sexual selection]] -- [[genetic drift]]14 KB (1,640 words) - 17:09, 21 March 2024
- ...volution as well as self-replication. Indeed, the mechanism of evolution---natural selection---is a consequence of the necessarily competing drives for self-replication9 KB (1,335 words) - 11:57, 26 September 2007
- ...f evolution, attributing it to the combination of natural experiments and natural selection. Aristotle both acknowledges Empedocles’ ‘survival-of-the-fittest’ ar18 KB (2,785 words) - 04:26, 26 October 2013
- ...immer chance of survival than the others, so because of the mechanism of [[natural selection]], it would seem that this trait would be lost after a few generations. How ...quencies]] of genes under the influence of the four evolutionary forces: [[natural selection]], [[genetic drift]], [[mutation]] and [[migration]]. It is the theory that18 KB (2,617 words) - 06:31, 9 June 2009
- ...no known scientific mechanism which can explain human behaviour besides [[natural selection]]. ...vocates the hypothesis that cognition in humans came about as a spandrel: "Natural selection made the human brain big, but most of our mental properties and potentials25 KB (3,643 words) - 05:59, 15 September 2013
- * £10 notes depict the naturalist and co-discoverer of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]], [[Charles Darwin]] (1809–1882). On the left hand side of the reverse s5 KB (699 words) - 04:28, 1 October 2013
- ...ne dinucleotide|NAD]] - [[NADH]] - [[NADPH]] - [[natural environment]] - [[natural selection]] - [[nephron]] - [[nervous system]] - [[neural plate]] - [[neural tube]] -17 KB (2,197 words) - 17:09, 21 March 2024
- ...le to determine just what are the organizing principles: gene interaction, natural selection and a host of other nebulous issues appear to compete for dominance. There6 KB (971 words) - 13:38, 4 September 2013
- ...systems produce enough reproductive variability to allow evolution through natural selection, which guides the continuation of a 3.5 billion year history of Earth’s l ...also incapable of independent life. Viruses are however able to evolve by natural selection and do posses genetic material, which can be either RNA or DNA.23 KB (3,431 words) - 23:45, 25 October 2013
- ...humans descended from other primates; however, he claims that evolution by natural selection alone cannot fully explain the differences between species. ...r students to learn about the difficulties with the theory of evolution by natural selection as published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.20 KB (3,035 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...ghly reliable and it doesn’t work serially but rather in parallel. Or that natural selection is like a design engineer in the sense that parts of animals become enginee6 KB (1,033 words) - 17:25, 6 February 2010
- ...ists distinguish between the factuality of evolution and theories of its [[Natural selection|mechanism]]. ...journal | author = Haldane JBS | year = 1953 | title = The measurement of natural selection | journal = Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Genetics | vol53 KB (7,846 words) - 16:55, 24 May 2012
- ...itemID=F373&viewtype=side&pageseq=1 ''On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.''] 1st edi11 KB (1,641 words) - 20:57, 3 September 2018
- ...provided an accessible introduction to the genetical basis of evolution by natural selection. Egbert Leigh's new introduction to this classic work places it in the cont6 KB (1,007 words) - 00:06, 25 February 2009
- ...and cultural practices, like religions, may also evolve by the process of natural selection (see Dan Dennetts TED talks [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dan_dennett14 KB (2,183 words) - 12:49, 18 May 2009
- ...d scientific results showing how bacteria in his lab had evolved through [[natural selection]] over many generations,<ref>Barrick, J. E., D. S. Yu, S. H. Yoon, H. Jeong11 KB (1,540 words) - 07:09, 26 March 2024
- 42. Darwin, C. 1985. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Edited with 187. Williams, G. C. 1966. Adaptation and Natural Selection. Princeton University Press.23 KB (3,026 words) - 11:38, 13 June 2010
- ...s of RNA compete with each other for free nucleotides and are subject to [[natural selection]]. The most efficient molecules of RNA, the ones able to efficiently catal11 KB (1,710 words) - 11:11, 14 November 2007
- ...trained by physics, chemistry, and structure; not all change is powered by natural selection, and not all phenotypes are adaptive.8 KB (1,098 words) - 02:52, 22 November 2023
- ...advances, in a process akin to the interplay between genetic variation and natural selection.17 KB (2,568 words) - 12:39, 25 January 2011
- ...n]]ary change, at the same time proposing the [[scientific theory]] that [[natural selection]] is the mechanism by which such change occurs. Since then, an immense amou ...dy the [[transmutation of species]] and in 1838 he conceived his theory of natural selection. Fully aware that others had been severely treated for such "[[heresy#Conte48 KB (7,518 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...otropic effects, thereby limiting their contribution to evolution under [[natural selection]].17 KB (2,382 words) - 05:48, 20 February 2024
- ...eproduction seems counter intuitive to [[natural selection]]. According to natural selection, animals are expected to maximize their reproductive capabilities. In most ...ajority of animals are likely to die before middle age it is unlikely that natural selection will affect later stages of life. According to the disposable soma theory,38 KB (5,612 words) - 10:23, 8 May 2023
- ...e.org/component/option,com_mediadb/task,view/idstr,SpokenWord-gcu-a0a0r2-b Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind] article by Popper, ''Dialectica'' 19787 KB (987 words) - 06:44, 9 June 2009
- *[[Thermodynamics]] of [[natural selection]] I: [[Energy flow]] and the limits on organization *Thermodynamics of natural selection II: Chemical Carnot cycles33 KB (4,743 words) - 17:28, 28 June 2012
- ...their steady-state in response to fluctuations in environmental factors. Natural selection, and other evolutionary processes, also designed the networks to regulate t The collaboration of natural selection and physicochemical interplay serves to perpetuate living systems not only35 KB (5,145 words) - 02:52, 22 November 2023
- ...f information so much easier than in earlier periods. This has reduced the natural selection processes which would otherwise have kept all but the most important inform14 KB (2,131 words) - 08:39, 22 April 2024
- ...just as its parent’s progeny does, contributing to the variation needed by natural selection to perpetuate the process of living on an earth with ever-changing environm15 KB (2,287 words) - 18:38, 3 December 2012
- Have humans therefore been formed by natural selection to experiment with and indeed become addicted to as many neurotoxins as pos17 KB (2,674 words) - 04:36, 22 November 2023
- ...lutionary forces comprise a wide range of natural processes in addition to natural selection, and different 'kinds' of selection. <ref name=jablonka05book>Jablonka E, L ...inevitable but unfortunate consequence of imperfect human engineering and natural selection (Mel Greaves, Institute of Cancer Research, UK),50 KB (7,332 words) - 17:37, 18 July 2016
- ...nd botanical sciences, by introducing the [[theory]] of [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]] as an explanation for the diversity of all animal and plant life. The sub ...or the delectation of man himself. Necessarily, according to the theory of natural selection, structures either are present because they are selected as useful or becau77 KB (12,623 words) - 22:32, 9 December 2006
- {{rpr|Natural selection}} 15597 KB (774 words) - 05:13, 8 March 2024
- ...ly assumed that most microsatellite loci occur in non-coding DNA and are [[natural selection|selectively]]10 KB (1,440 words) - 23:48, 12 February 2010
- ...ew Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution,'' that this was natural selection, in which scavenger wolves hung about human encampments; the ones who becam ...produced so-called natural breeds. These dogs are largely the product of [[natural selection]]. Members of a ''natural breed'' [[true breeding (animals)|breed true]] -43 KB (6,974 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
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- ...ew Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior and Evolution,'' that this was natural selection, in which scavenger wolves hung about human encampments; the ones who becam ...produced so-called natural breeds. These dogs are largely the product of [[natural selection]]. Members of a ''natural breed'' [[true breeding (animals)|breed true]] -45 KB (7,175 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- ...also incapable of independent life. Viruses are however able to evolve by natural selection and do posses genetic material, which can be either RNA or DNA. ...t's generally accepted that the society of eusocial animals is a unit of [[natural selection]] to at least some extent, most evolutionary biologists claim that the indi27 KB (3,997 words) - 08:16, 19 November 2011
- ...competition with individuals of other species, following the process of [[natural selection]]. If any [[species]] cannot adapt, it will die out, becoming extinct, in o12 KB (1,782 words) - 21:21, 5 February 2010
- ...a that God allows certain natural process (such as [[gene mutation]] and [[natural selection]]) to affect the development of life, but has also directly intervened at k16 KB (2,749 words) - 18:28, 31 October 2013
- ...el Wallace]] explicitly acknowledged Malthus's influence on the theory of natural selection.20 KB (3,113 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2007
- ...tation]] rate, has provided the first laboratory proofs of the theory of [[natural selection]] and [[evolution]]. ...es allows microorganisms to swiftly [[biological evolution|evolve]] (via [[natural selection]]) to survive in new environments. This capacity for rapid evolution is ill28 KB (4,152 words) - 00:34, 29 March 2009
- ...a that God allows certain natural process (such as [[gene mutation]] and [[natural selection]]) to affect the development of life, but has also directly intervened at k17 KB (2,809 words) - 18:30, 31 October 2013
- ...ment has been abandoned by many since the discovery of [[evolution]] and [[natural selection]] by [[Charles Darwin]], as this provides a powerful mechanism for nature t23 KB (3,598 words) - 11:48, 2 February 2023
- I am questioning the use of natural selection in a systems article. As you know selection occurs after the fact and has n :I understand your point about the temporal position of natural selection. Natural selection does come after random mutation, but not only after that. It also comes af83 KB (13,761 words) - 20:20, 30 March 2009
- ...ing one or more of the many types of [[adaptation]], including Darwinian [[natural selection]]. Pioneer elucidator of complex adaptive systems, John Holland, describes11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:51, 22 November 2023
- ...ed wild emmer (AABB) happened long before domestication, and was driven by natural selection.30 KB (4,576 words) - 10:10, 28 February 2024
- ...al of the Likeliest? — ''Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself'' — A 2007 Essay from PLoS Biology. [[User:C10 KB (1,596 words) - 05:02, 8 March 2024
- ...in degree among individuals in a given generation, variations upon which [[natural selection]] operates in mediating evolution.17 KB (2,442 words) - 16:21, 26 January 2015
- ...triking consequence of this kinetic approach is that Darwin's principle of natural selection: that living things replicate, and therefore evolve, may be phrased more ge14 KB (2,016 words) - 10:21, 11 July 2020
- ...currently living organisms as the products of evolution, acting mainly by natural selection of organisms for reproductive success. The foundation of this theory is tha The Theory of [[natural selection]] is generally regarded as one of the 'cornerstones' of modern biology, but60 KB (9,261 words) - 15:41, 23 September 2013
- ...ph: 'an organism that obtains energy from light'. Beatty JT. (2002) On the natural selection and evolution of the aerobic phototrophic bacteria. ''Photosynthesis Resear25 KB (3,545 words) - 17:36, 30 September 2018
- ...ed wild emmer (AABB) happened long before domestication, and was driven by natural selection.32 KB (4,818 words) - 10:09, 28 February 2024
- ...erse, energy, and life from nothing; (2) The insufficiency of mutation and natural selection in bringing about development of all living kinds from a single organism; (26 KB (3,971 words) - 04:23, 12 June 2023
- ...of Species. I would argue much of what's presented as proof for evolution, natural selection and adaptation to the environment including, would not necessarily be proof31 KB (5,097 words) - 10:15, 10 July 2011
- ...om a common ancestor, or that life spontaneously came about from nothing. Natural selection and adaptation are clearly observable in nature, we can reproduce them, obs ...ttedly engaging throughout not only in relating his scientific findings on natural selection and adaption, but also his personal convictions and theorizing:[http://darw42 KB (6,957 words) - 04:10, 22 November 2023
- ...c love evolved along with humans, according to this view. Haselton wrote: "Natural selection has built love to make us feel romantic."<ref name=twsMAR11i/> She speculat ...omen are drawn to status and security, and because of these differences, a natural selection process results where males seek healthy women of childbearing age, whereas37 KB (6,091 words) - 07:19, 28 March 2023
- ...currently living organisms as the products of evolution, acting mainly by natural selection of organisms for reproductive success. The foundation of this theory is tha The Theory of [[natural selection]] is generally regarded as one of the 'cornerstones' of modern biology, but64 KB (9,985 words) - 12:27, 24 March 2022
- ...pt that would eventually express itself in biology with Darwin & Wallace's Natural Selection. When does historical change become "evolution"? I think it is when we ca38 KB (5,783 words) - 12:48, 21 February 2021
- ...genetic factors among bacteria. It is not, as once thought, a matter of [[natural selection]], where a few organisms within a species randomly mutate, become resistant14 KB (1,922 words) - 12:55, 8 March 2015
- ...ions plausible. Evolutionary change from ancient life, by the mechanism of natural selection, came to be universally accepted by biologists as an immensely powerful and38 KB (5,841 words) - 12:15, 14 February 2021
- ...ed grammatical challenges by highlighting the view that the statement that natural selection is undirected and random and implication that it is unable to create functi ...gs is too great to be plausibly accounted for by the proposed processes of natural selection, or indeed by any chance driven mechanisms. The tenet of irreducible comple102 KB (16,719 words) - 10:49, 27 May 2007
- The [[evolution]] of bacterial strains through [[natural selection]] that are [[resistant]] to multiple drugs has led some medical researchers25 KB (3,752 words) - 13:50, 8 March 2024
- ...t is used by proponents of intelligent design to argue that evolution by [[natural selection]] alone is incomplete or flawed, and that some additional mechanism (an "In ...theories are putatively an application of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection to society as a whole. They generally claim that current social structure i42 KB (6,290 words) - 03:53, 22 November 2023
- ...citizendium. Efffectively this approach to developing subpages will use "''natural selection''" as a way to improve our use of the subpage format, possibly in ways that16 KB (2,731 words) - 21:07, 11 February 2010
- ...differently due to both their environment if enough time is presented for natural selection and the limited genetic variation in relation to the original population. T16 KB (2,455 words) - 08:38, 6 May 2011
- ...llective behavior that organized interacting subsystems engender, and that natural selection operates on its variations. A more extreme position is that the subsystem b ...mselves, having developed their pattern of behavior by trial and error and natural selection. Scientists of philosophic bent and philosophers of science like to conside47 KB (6,881 words) - 10:00, 14 July 2015
- In England, [[Charles Darwin]] built on the idea of [[natural selection]] as a way to explain how diverse creatures might have common patterns of f29 KB (4,598 words) - 11:26, 25 January 2011
- ...) is an attempt to rebut the naturalism of the theory of evolution through natural selection. It is an argument that random processes such as mutation could never combi ...discussion of evolution as a fundamental point. Will has pointed out that natural selection and evolution are possible along with ID, and he seems to be the "expert" h186 KB (30,768 words) - 13:37, 19 February 2013
- *[[Natural selection/Approval]] *[[Natural selection/Bibliography]]115 KB (17,395 words) - 05:48, 8 March 2024
- ...just be capitalised throughout? Also what about the Theory of Evolution by Natural selection. Is that the correct capitalisation? [[User:William Hart|William Hart]] 04: ...isting theory was identified as being 'the Theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection'. However many times it was repeated that that theory was 150 years old, a104 KB (17,261 words) - 10:49, 27 May 2007
- ...hat these evolved psychological mechanisms are adaptations, constructed by natural selection over evolutionary time.52 KB (7,604 words) - 09:00, 28 April 2024
- The [[evolution]] of bacterial strains through [[natural selection]] that are [[resistant]] to multiple drugs has led some medical researchers29 KB (3,377 words) - 04:53, 22 November 2023
- ...r Nature's ultimate authority and disciplining force (cf. 400-401) and the natural selection of superior races capable of ruthlessly eliminating threats to their surviv37 KB (6,108 words) - 02:28, 26 July 2007
- ...might nicely illustrate the concept of phenotypic changes brought about by natural selection. [[User:Nancy Sculerati|Nancy Sculerati]] 12:20, 1 May 2007 (CDT) ...planation which I have offered of the origin of species, under the name of natural selection." Mathew's term for it was slightly different - he called it 'Nature's law101 KB (16,408 words) - 10:27, 17 September 2020
- *Thermodynamics of natural selection I: Energy flow and the limits on organization *Thermodynamics of natural selection II: Chemical Carnot cycles63 KB (9,030 words) - 02:52, 22 November 2023
- ...interdependent diverse types of components, all naturally generated and [[Natural selection|naturally selected]], interacting physico-chemically in a dynamic, coordina ...630/ 102:6630-5] PMID 15851668</ref> A case in point: Determining whether natural selection operating at the molecular level has forged the structure of molecular netw94 KB (13,588 words) - 18:21, 24 November 2013
- ...lution of cells]]. Loved it. As Thomas Huxley said when he read Darwin's natural selection mechanism, so simple I feel stupid not to have thought of it. Figure I'll ...g systems. They refer to it as descent with modification.[16] Evolution by natural selection will occur if heritable variations produce offspring that differ in their r91 KB (14,893 words) - 06:23, 2 March 2021
- ## [[Natural selection]]23 KB (2,294 words) - 08:39, 22 April 2024
- In England, [[Charles Darwin]] built on the idea of [[natural selection]] as a way to explain how diverse creatures might have common patterns of f35 KB (5,491 words) - 12:15, 14 February 2021
- ...: Survival of the Likeliest? — Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself]]'' :*'''<font color="purple"><u>Note:</u></font>''' Lotka invokes natural selection as facilitating energy dissipation (energy flow per unit time).</ref>150 KB (22,449 words) - 05:42, 6 March 2024
- ...tant portion, have to be treated accordingly, because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act as a the seed of a new Jewish revival."32 KB (5,144 words) - 00:49, 24 October 2013
- ...and Charles Darwin has suggested that it could be transmitted further by natural selection: ...common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection''<ref>[[Charles Darwin]], ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2300/pg23046 KB (6,683 words) - 12:35, 7 May 2024
- ...and Charles Darwin has suggested that it could be transmitted further by natural selection: ...common good, would be victorious over most other tribes; and this would be natural selection''<ref>[[Charles Darwin]], ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2300/pg23046 KB (6,686 words) - 12:35, 7 May 2024
- ...form and beauty. Orchids are remarkable examples of speciation through [[natural selection]]. Some orchids have developed extraordinary systems of [[pollination]]. Th79 KB (12,256 words) - 10:07, 28 February 2024
- ...form and beauty. Orchids are remarkable examples of speciation through [[natural selection]]. Some orchids have developed extraordinary systems of [[pollination]]. Th79 KB (12,281 words) - 10:09, 28 February 2024
- ...urally occurring mutations and results in new genotypes and phenotypes for natural selection. Asexual reproduction has beneficial traits as well, it allows for dispersi23 KB (3,427 words) - 06:30, 23 January 2011
- ...: Survival of the Likeliest? — Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself]]'' *<u>Note:</u> Lotka invokes natural selection as facilitating energy dissipation (energy flow per unit time).</font></ref194 KB (28,649 words) - 05:43, 6 March 2024
- |13. Natural selection modifies the genetic basis of organism design |13. Natural selection procedures modify the software that specifies a machine design53 KB (8,436 words) - 00:53, 2 April 2008
- Hi Pierre. Mechanisms of natural selection require very many generations before even beneficial mutations will become70 KB (10,860 words) - 10:30, 17 August 2009
- ...a gross exaggeration to claim that it was the foundation of his theory of natural selection.25 KB (4,027 words) - 11:55, 23 October 2007
- ...in life. Each cell stores coded information accumulated from the action of natural selection action on its its ancestors in the form of nucleic acid sequences of its th27 KB (3,909 words) - 22:11, 27 October 2013
- | related concept2 = Natural selection30 KB (4,600 words) - 15:42, 4 December 2008
- ...(or at all), for example, chaos and attractors; the relationship between natural selection and the tendency of organisms to regulate their internal and external envir :*role of natural selection in homeostasis and niche construction75 KB (12,131 words) - 01:26, 9 May 2008
- ...arles Darwin|Charles Darwin]]) of the powerful force in organic evolution, natural selection, which philosopher Daniel Dennett awards as the most important idea humans25 KB (3,941 words) - 05:06, 8 March 2024
- # C. Darwin, ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'', John Murrray, London, UK, 1859.46 KB (6,771 words) - 03:40, 22 November 2023
- ...er's terms. It's hard to see it as falsifiable, and hard to see studies of Natural Selection as determined attempts at disproof; instead it's a broad schema within whic So I think that in a head to head comparison (ID vs Natural Selection) it may be easy to see why scientists accept one and reject the other and t112 KB (18,028 words) - 05:48, 20 February 2024
- ...lution of cells]]. Loved it. As Thomas Huxley said when he read Darwin's natural selection mechanism, so simple I feel stupid not to have thought of it. Figure I'll53 KB (8,606 words) - 15:48, 3 November 2010
- ...'as if'' they evolved through natural selection, then the entire theory of natural selection would have to be implicitly present in his mind, so these theories contain108 KB (17,534 words) - 12:01, 15 November 2011
- ...e dissent by the flat earth society, but not so obvious that references to natural selection should not acknowledge the possibility of dissent -- (perhaps by the addit33 KB (5,420 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2024
- ...e sentence does not in fact refer to random mutation, but simply refers to natural selection working through selection from inherited variability. I don't see how self ::::Natural selection is only one of many aspects of the theory of evolution. They are not synon148 KB (24,805 words) - 12:37, 14 June 2009
- :::#Fisher's "Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection"46 KB (6,635 words) - 13:25, 14 April 2021
- ..."Survival of the Likeliest? — Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself — A Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS Biology) ...d Survival of the Likeliest? — Using the laws of thermodynamics to explain natural selection — and life itself]<br>69 KB (9,985 words) - 09:20, 11 May 2024
- ...d length of rhythms in the solar wind. These were installed genetically by natural selection at some time in the distant geological past. This interpretive model of the *Wake 1991: Homoplasy: The result of natural selection or evidence of design limitation?128 KB (18,283 words) - 10:27, 1 April 2024
- ...anatomy, physiology and metabolism to wild plant and animal foods through natural selection and other evolutionary forces operating over millions of years, enabling s121 KB (14,114 words) - 21:20, 1 January 2014
- <center><i>of Natural Selection...</i>.</center></td>168 KB (25,388 words) - 10:45, 7 March 2024
- : Style points; I don't think we can say that organisms subject themselves to natural selection, that implies a voluntary will.[[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]] 05:56, 21 M ...just as its parent’s progeny does, contributing to the variation needed by natural selection to perpetuate the process of living on an earth with ever-changing environm198 KB (31,954 words) - 06:28, 6 March 2024
- ...y mechanism nor can I imagine how any mechanism could have evolved through natural selection.[[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]] 08:30, 18 September 2008 (CDT)134 KB (21,853 words) - 15:52, 4 January 2009