luonnonvalinta — meaning in English
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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.
- survival of the fittest noun phrase The principle that the organisms best suited to their environment are the ones most likely to live long enough to reproduce and pass on their traits.
Senses
luonnonvalinta 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.
- survival of the fittest (evolutionary theory) Natural selection.
survival of the fittest — full definition
- noun phrase The principle that the organisms best suited to their environment are the ones most likely to live long enough to reproduce and pass on their traits.
- noun phrase A situation in which only the strongest, cleverest or most ruthless competitors last, and the rest are pushed out.