natural selection

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Noun

natural selection (uncountable)

1. (evolutionary biology) 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.
2. (quantitative genetics) A process in which individual organisms or phenotypes that possess favourable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce: the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.

Related terms

• artificial selection
• sexual selection

Translations

an evolutionary process

Armenian: բնական ընտրություն (hy) (bnakan ëntrut’yun) Catalan: selecció natural (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 自然選擇 (cmn), 自然选择 (cmn) (zìrán xuǎnzé) Czech: přírodní výběr (cs) m. Danish: naturlig selektion (da) c. Dutch: natuurlijke selectie (nl) f. Esperanto: natura selektado (eo) Finnish: luonnonvalinta (fi) French: sélection naturelle (fr) f. German: natürliche Selektion (de) f., natürliche Auslese (de) f., natürliche Zuchtwahl (de) f. Hebrew: ברירה טבעית (he) Icelandic: náttúruval (is) n. Italian: selezione naturale (it) f. Japanese: 自然淘汰 (ja) (しぜんとうた shizen-tōta)

Kazakh: қозғаушы сұрыпталу (kk) Korean: 자연선택 (jha yeon seon tek) / 자연도태 (jha yeon doe tae) Norwegian: Bokmål: naturlig seleksjon (no) m., naturlig utvalg (no) n. Nynorsk: naturleg seleksjon (nn) m., naturleg utval (nn) n. Novial: natural selektione Polish: dobór naturalny (pl) m., selekcja naturalna (pl) f. Portuguese: seleção natural (pt) f. Russian: естественный отбор (ru) (jestéstvennyj otbór) m. Serbo-Croatian: природна селекција (sh), prirodna selekcija (sh) Spanish: selección natural (es) f. Swedish: naturligt urval (sv) n. Turkish: doğal seleksiyon Uzbek: tabiiy tanlanish (uz) Yiddish: נאַטירלעכע סעלעקציע (yi) (natirlekhe selektsye) f.