meaning of natural selection

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What did Darwin mean by natural selection?

-- Rosalind Gildea (frudadre@freenetname.co.uk), October 09, 2001

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That organimsms which have comparative advantages (e.g.,in finding food, evading predators, attracting mates) will tend to reproduce more successfully and thus their kind will be "selected" by nature to continue on.

See chapter IV of Darwin's _Origin of Species_, which can be found on-line at:

http://www.zoo.uib.no/classics/darwin/origin.chap4.html

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 10, 2001.


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