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English
Etymology
Coined by British biologist Charles Darwin in 1859 in his work On the Origin of Species.
Pronunciation
Noun
natural selection (uncountable)
- (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.
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natural selection
- Arabic: اِنْتِقَاءٌ طَبِيعِيّ m (intiqāʔun ṭabīʕiyy)
- Armenian: բնական ընտրություն (bnakan əntrutʻyun)
- Catalan: selecció natural f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 自然選擇／自然选择 (zi6 jin4 syun2 zaak6), 天擇／天择 (tin1 zaak6)
- Hokkien: 自然選擇／自然选择 (chū-jiân soán-te̍k), 天擇／天择 (thian-te̍k)
- Mandarin: 自然選擇／自然选择 (zh) (zìrán xuǎnzé), 天擇／天择 (zh) (tiānzé)
- Czech: přírodní výběr m
- Danish: naturlig selektion c
- Dutch: natuurlijke selectie f
- Esperanto: natura selektado
- Finnish: luonnonvalinta (fi)
- French: sélection naturelle (fr) f
- Galician: selección natural f
- Georgian: ბუნებრივი გადარჩევა (bunebrivi gadarčeva)
- German: natürliche Selektion (de) f, natürliche Auslese (de) f, natürliche Zuchtwahl f
- Greek: φυσική επιλογή (el) f (fysikí epilogí)
- Hebrew: ברירה טבעית
- Hindi: प्राकृतिक वरण m (prākŕtik varaṇ)
- Hungarian: természetes kiválasztódás (hu)
- Icelandic: náttúruval n
- Indonesian: seleksi alami (id)
- Italian: selezione naturale f
- Japanese: 自然選択 (しぜんせんたく shizen-sentaku), 自然淘汰 (しぜんとうた shizen-tōta)
- Kazakh: қозғаушы сұрыпталу (qozğauşy sūryptalu)
- Korean: 자연선택 (jayeonseontaek), 자연도태 (ko) (jayeondotae)
- Latvian: dabiskā izlase f
- Malay: pemilihan semula jadi, pemilihan alamiah
- Maori: whiringa māori
- Mongolian: байгалийн шалгарал (bajgaliin šalgaral)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: naturlig seleksjon m, naturlig utvalg n
- Nynorsk: naturleg seleksjon m, naturleg utval n
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: dobór naturalny m, selekcja naturalna f
- Portuguese: seleção natural (pt) f
- Romanian: selecție naturală (ro) f
- Russian: есте́ственный отбо́р (ru) m (jestéstvennyj otbór)
- Serbo-Croatian: природна селекција, prirodna selekcija
- Slovak: prirodzený výber
- Spanish: selección natural (es) f
- Swedish: naturligt urval n
- Tagalog: piliang likas
- Thai: การคัดเลือกโดยธรรมชาติ (gaan-kát-lʉ̂ʉak-dooi-tam-má-châat)
- Turkish: doğal seçilim (tr), natürel seleksiyon
- Ukrainian: приро́дний добі́р m (pryródnyj dobír), приро́дний відбі́р m (pryródnyj vidbír)
- Uzbek: tabiiy tanlanish
- Vietnamese: chọn lọc tự nhiên
- Welsh: detholiad naturiol
- Yiddish: נאַטירלעכע סעלעקציע f (natirlekhe selektsye)
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