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To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859) ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which ...

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and pass on the genes that aided their success. This process causes ...

Darwinian natural selection kicked in. Bacteria, multicellular organisms, plants, animals, primates and humans all came onto the scene in due course. Natural selection of quantum weirdness ...

THE title of this little book is misleading. Far from offering any account of evolution without natural selection, the author habitually ascribes to natural selection the lion's share of the work ...

Physiological traits that help Tibetan women survive at high altitudes are being selected for within the population, meaning they may be becoming more common, new research hints.

The early part of the twentieth century saw evolutionary theory embattled by disagreements over Darwin's emphasis on natural selection. The then-newly rediscovered work of Gregor Mendel in the ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of ...

Darwin's engine, natural selection, had few supporters: Many people found it distasteful because it seemed to be ruthless and wasteful of life and had no positive, uplifting goal. Some of the ...

Using advanced computational modelling, this book explores cutting-edge research into action selection in nature from a wide range of disciplines, from neuroscience to behavioural ecology, and even ...