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) (qozğawşı surıptalw)
• Korean: 자연선택 (jha yeon seon tek) / 자연도태 (jha yeon doe tae)
• Malay: pemilihan semula jadi (ms), pemilihan alamiah (ms)
• 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