Natural Selection

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Natural selection is a process by which biological populations are altered over time, as a result of the propagation of heritable traits that affect the capacity of individual organisms to survive and reproduce. It leads to an adaptation and accommodation of a species to a certain ecological or economic niche. According to John H. Holland, natural selection can be considered as a selection of persistent combinations: "darwinian selection is, from one point of view, the selection of persistent combinations" [1]

see Wikipedia Entry for Natural Selection