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Natural selection Common

Origin: Latin suffix -tion

Natural selection has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

2

A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

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natural process
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