natural selection

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They simply drift through nature without attracting much attention from natural selection.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

That was assumed to be the result of a natural selection.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The theoretical approach, which studies human behavior, cognition and emotions as products of natural selection, depicts relationship formation as sales-like, highly gendered and strategy-based.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Lo wants to use a kind of computer-accelerated natural selection to spur the development of better AI models.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

If artificial selection can make such major changes in so short a period of time, what must natural selection, working over billions of years, be capable of?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan