natural selection
短语[医] 自然选择, 自然淘汰
发音
US
别名
selection
释义与例句
n.
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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.
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
同义词 3
上位词 2
词源
Coined by British biologist Charles Darwin in 1859 in his work On the Origin of Species.
来源:wiktionary