natuurlijke selectie — meaning in English

English meaning

• natural selection noun The process by which living things with traits better suited to their environment tend to survive and have more offspring, so that those traits become more common in later generations.

Senses

natuurlijke selectie is used for these senses in English:

• natural selection (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.