English-French translations for natural selection

• sélection naturelle
  Darwin appelait cela la sélection naturelle. Darwin called it natural selection.
  Nous n'avons qu'à nous accrocher avant que la sélection naturelle nous rattrape. We just need to get on with it before natural selection catches up.
  Je ne peux pas ne pas songer que la vie a eu besoin d' un milliard d' années pour se développer sur notre planète et qu' elle a évolué selon le processus de la sélection naturelle. I for one cannot overlook the fact that life took a billion years to develop on our planet and evolved by natural selection.

Definition of natural selection

• 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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