A classic example of natural selection at work is the origin of giraffes’ long necks. The ancestors of modern giraffes were animals similar to deer or antelope, with necks of ordinary length.

The neo-Darwinist attachment to Natural Selection has arrested the development of science for too long.

Note that this change was not due to pollution making the moths darker. The dark variety had always existed in small numbers, but only had a selective advantage when the selection pressure changed.

FISHER 1 in 1930 stated his “fundamental theorem of natural selection” in the form: “The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness ...

This helps the species to be more successful in its habitat. It’s natural selection at work. In some examples of convergent evolution, species evolve the same solution to a problem but take a ...

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of natural selection. English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles ...

drove a strong pulse of natural selection in the Amazon roughly seven thousand years ago—the first documented example of pathogen-driven natural selection in the Americas. As a result, many Amazonian ...

So this animal is a beautiful example, probably one of the best in the world, of how the sieve of natural selection produces animals that are perfectly adapted to live in their environment.

"Horrific Behaviour Incredible Hulk 368 'Natural Selection'" delves into one of the most intense and morally complex issues of the Incredible Hulk comic series. In this issue, the Hulk faces ...

The mythos and suspense associated with the Natural Selection Tour’s first ski outing are growing day by day. We’ve already learned which skiers competed in the event—Sam Kuch, Manon Loschi, Hedvig ...

In natural selection, genetic mutations that are beneficial to an individual’s survival are passed on through reproduction. This results in a new generation of organisms that are more likely to ...