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What is natural selection?

What is natural selection? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (evolutionary theory) 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.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (quantitative genetics) A process in which individual organisms or phenotypes that possess favourable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce: the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
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Our data suggest that the performance paradigm can be expanded to reveal more of the physiological underpinning of natural selection in the wild.
Drug resistance arises by natural selection, mutant strains being selected when the virus replicates in sub-limiting drug concentrations.
This sort of pain is just what we would expect from natural selection, which is a jerry-builder.
This type of altruism seems inconsistent with principles of natural selection.
We are now told, with equal wonder and admiration, that natural selection is the agent of exquisite design.
As gene frequencies change, natural selection acts on the outcome, the expression of those genes.

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