natural selection
differential survival and reproduction of individuals in nature due to differences in phenotype; a key mechanism of evolution
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Summary
natural selection ranks in the top 0.88% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,392 views/month, #685 of 77,819).[1]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Charles Darwin[2]
- Subclass of: biological selection[3]
- Part of: evolution[4]
- Commons category: Natural selection[5]
- Opposite of: supernatural selection[6]
- Has cause: biological competition[7], genetic variation[8], heredity[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Natural selection[10]
- Facet of: Darwinism[11], modern evolutionary synthesis[12], evolutionary biology[13]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Otto's encyclopedia[16], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[19]
- Has effect: survival of the fittest[20]
- Different from: selection[21], artificial selection[22]
- Studied by: evolutionary biology[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24]
- P14541: 3Pn8y1[25]
Why It Matters
natural selection has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 100 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]