… ] concluded that, under the idealised conditions of a constant environment, natural selection
… Thus, although natural selection often determines which individuals survive and reproduce, …

… of natural selection on a phenotypic trait. We reexamine the observational methods recently
proposed for measuring selection in natural … the causal agents of selection. We discuss how …

… natural selection as it can be seen in natural populations. … Mortality selection is clearly a
special case of natural selection (… natural selection will proceed with mortality selection alone. …

… , and this rate is often termed the intrinsic rate of natural increase, r. The rate, m, begins to
de… A basic postulate of this investigation is that natural selection will tend to maximize m in the …

… structure is the theory of natural selection, the view that the … may not be the product of natural
selection, but a side effect of other … has been shaped by natural selection as it is understood …

… by natural selection can be distinguished from an efficient multi-purpose robot by its having,
not only its manifest capabilities attributable to natural selection … of natural selection accounts …

… are to be expected in natural populations. Small size of … The study of limits to natural
selection is likely to be a fruitful … belief in the power of natural selection. One would expect the …

… nearly adult; – so in a state of nature, natural selection will be enabled to act on and modify
… through natural selection, than in the cotton-planter increasing and improving by selection …

… of biochemical studies and natural history data supports a role for natural selection in the …
relative contributions of selection and drift in determining observed levels of allozyme variation. …

… by natural selection and evolution by random drift. On some common construals of "natural
selection… Even on a proper construal of "natural selection" , it is difficult to distinguish between …