natural selection

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

selezione naturale

sinonimi

selection

survival of the fittest

survival

natural elimination

Traduzioni

natürliche Selektion

selección natural

sélection naturelle

natürliche Auslese

selecció natural

φυσική επιλογή

seleção natural

doğal seleksiyon

Zuchtwahl

natürliche Zuchtwahl

selection naturelle

natuurlijke selectie

selecção natural

Etimologia (Inglese)

Coined by British biologist Charles Darwin in 1859 in his work On the Origin of Species.

Frasi

Haeckel did not support natural selection , rather believing in Lamarckism .