English-Spanish translations for natural selection

• selección natural
  Darwin lo llamaba selección natural. Darwin called it natural selection.
  Simplemente tenemos que seguir adelante con ella antes de que la selección natural nos alcance. We just need to get on with it before natural selection catches up.
  No puedo dejar de pensar que la vida ha necesitado mil millones de años para evolucionar en nuestro planeta y lo ha hecho siguiendo la selección natural. 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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