natural selection

短语

[医] 自然选择, 自然淘汰

发音

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别名

selection

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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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  2. 2.

    A process by which poor individual choices or attributes naturally, or rightfully, lead to poor outcomes, especially death.

    非正式 冒犯 不可数

词汇关系

词源

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

来源:wiktionary