natural selection
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Among our hunter-gatherer ancestors, natural selection probably favored those most attuned to animals and disfavored those who were unaware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Conscious feelings have more efficacy than nonconscious processes, meaning that once they emerged, they conferred so great an advantage that natural selection had to favor them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In theory, natural selection might be expected to gradually remove traits that produce such disadvantages.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
While evolution lacks “intention,” the author observes, natural selection is “relentlessly, exquisitely” effective at enabling life to adapt to a range of environmental conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Those invaders get winnowed by natural selection, and only a few of them succeed in establishing themselves as human diseases.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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