And it was designed by natural selection, the process of natural selection, over many millions of years.

Natural selection is survival of the fittest.

It was a clever move of natural selection itself.

Is it a product of natural selection, like our hands?

It's a powerful way of solving intractable problems using natural selection.

There was natural selection for the evolution of lightly pigmented skin.

Paradoxically, once established, natural selection actually favors the continued growth of cancer.

So it works. But not only that, if you think about how natural selection works, then it turns out that natural selection would only make sense in such a relational universe.

The designs discovered by the process of natural selection are brilliant, unbelievably brilliant.

So, natural selection will favor organisms that are more likely to cause damage.

And when evolutionary biologists talk about design, they really mean design by natural selection.

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised.

So Gary Bauer is not too far behind has slightly different theories about evolution and natural selection.

And yet, despite all of that Darwinian evolution and natural selection, they've been constrained to lie on a line.

Each dot corresponds to an islet from a different person a lot of variation on which natural selection can act.

That is, natural selection works on properties, like fitness, which are about relationships of some species to some other species.

I'm a biologist, and the central theorem of our subject the theory of design, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity.

So a theory of biology based on natural selection requires a relational notion of what are the properties of biological systems.

And when you have that, then evolutionary theory tells us that natural selection will favor the more exploitative, more predator like organisms.

Darwin himself, in his autobiography, tells the story of coming up with the idea for natural selection as a classic eureka! moment.

I know you know the idea, natural selection, but let me just paraphrase The Origin of Species, 1859, in a few sentences.

Charles Darwin seemingly overturned this optimistic view of the potential beneficial effects of nurture. Species evolve, Darwin said, through natural selection the random selection, through competition, of biological traits favorable to survival in a world of scarce resources.

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In a sense, sexual selection is the psychological extension of natural selection. But, instead of gaining an advantage from traits that enhance one s ability to survive, one gains an advantage from qualities that potential mates have evolved to find appealing.

Put them all together, and put all this under kind of natural selection, under mutation, and rewarded things for how well they can move forward.

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