Natural Selection

Science / Biology / Natural Selection: The process of differential survival and reproduction of fitter genotypes; can be stabilizing, directional, or disruptive. Better adapted individuals are more likely to survive to reproductive age and thus leave more offspring and make a larger contribution to the gene pool than do less fit individuals. The differential survival and reproductive successes of individuals in a variable population that powers the evolutionary process. When all individuals survive and reproduce (except for chance occurrences) natural selection works at a lower rate, if at all.
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Other Words for Natural

Natural Adjective Synonyms: ordinary, common, commonplace, normal, standard, regular,ual, customary, unexceptional, routine, habitual, typical, everyday, reasonable, logical, reasonable, sensible, accepted
Natural Noun Synonyms: normal, ordinary, regular, expected, spontaneous
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Other Words for Selection

Selection Verb Synonyms: choice, pick, preference, option
Selection Adjective Synonyms: assortment, variety, collection, range, batch, number, set, series, group
Selection Noun Synonyms: extract, quotation, excerpt, abstract, passage, piece, quote
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Disruptive Selection

Science / Biology / Disruptive Selection: A process of natural selection that favors individuals at both extremes of a phenotypic range. MORE

Selection Pressure

Science / Marine Biology / Selection Pressure: A measure of the effectiveness of natural selection in altering the genetic composition of a population. See also natural selection. MORE

Stabilizing Selection

Science / Biology / Stabilizing Selection: A process of natural selection that tends to favor genotypic combinations that produce an intermediate phenotype; selection against the extremes in variation. MORE