natural selection

自然选择自然的选择自然选拔适应性选择

natural selection 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations.

natural selection 近义词

n. 名词 noun

evolutionary theory

更多natural selection例句

  1. Such proteins might seem unlikely to evolve because natural selection for the first shape and function could easily be detrimental to the second, and vice versa.
  2. For this capacity to be a target of natural selection, however, the new information that dreaming discovers must provide at least some periodic survival benefit.
  3. In that sense, there is a kind of natural selection taking place for human information itself, like a bottleneck or founder effect in biological evolution.
  4. The virus is not static, and although the mutations are random, natural selection will lead to variants that are more capable of infecting and replicating in human beings.
  5. The famous 19th-century correspondence between Charles Darwin and Wallace, which prompted Darwin to quickly finalize his own writings on natural selection, is one example of such competition.
  6. The program has not made a final selection on which upgrades will actually be included in future versions of the F-35.
  7. In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.
  8. Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
  9. On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.
  10. More to the point, Huckabee has a natural appeal to a party that has come to represent the bulk of working class white voters.
  11. It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
  12. The place was well defended by earthworks and natural parapets, and for several hours the issue of the contest was doubtful.
  13. In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
  14. Whatever the species, it is well to imitate the natural conditions as much as possible in the way of soil.
  15. The significance of time is determined by the movement of any selection, or, in other words, the rhythm.