KnowraNatural selectionLinked fromLinked fromThe 143 pages that link to Natural selection, each with the reason it gives.All 143Broader topic 4Related 82Narrower topic 40Compared with 17Selective breedingCompared with: Unlike selective breeding, it does not require humans to choose parents.Genetic driftCompared with: Selection changes frequencies nonrandomly with respect to reproductive success, unlike drift.Founder effectCompared with: Unlike selection, founder-driven frequency shifts arise from sampling chance rather than fitness differences.LamarckismCompared with: It explains adaptation through differential reproduction rather than bodily change caused by use.Population bottleneckCompared with: Unlike drift in a bottleneck, selection changes allele frequencies nonrandomly with respect to fitness.Jean-Baptiste LamarckCompared with: It became the principal alternative to Lamarck’s account of adaptive change.Directed evolutionCompared with: Directed evolution recreates selection under laboratory-controlled goals and conditions.Enzyme engineeringCompared with: Laboratory selection borrows its logic but uses controlled goals and artificial conditions.OrthogenesisCompared with: Orthogenesis proposed direction without the differential reproduction central to this mechanism.Hugo de VriesCompared with: De Vries emphasized the origin of variants, while selection explains how their frequencies can change.James LovelockCompared with: Evolutionary explanations challenge accounts of planetary regulation that imply selection acts on Earth as one organism.Teleological argumentCompared with: It explains adaptation without requiring each useful biological feature to be separately designed.Inheritance of Acquired CharacteristicsCompared with: It explains adaptation through differential reproduction rather than transmission of acquired bodily changes.Dominant traitCompared with: Dominance alone does not make a trait beneficial or favored by selection.Lady Amherst's pheasantCompared with: Its trade-offs with mate attraction help frame the costs of conspicuous plumage.Motoo KimuraCompared with: Neutral theory distinguishes drift-driven substitutions from changes driven by adaptive selection.Carl NägeliCompared with: Nägeli regarded selection as insufficient to explain the origin and direction of variation.
KnowraNatural selectionLinked fromLinked fromThe 143 pages that link to Natural selection, each with the reason it gives.All 143Broader topic 4Related 82Narrower topic 40Compared with 17Selective breedingCompared with: Unlike selective breeding, it does not require humans to choose parents.Genetic driftCompared with: Selection changes frequencies nonrandomly with respect to reproductive success, unlike drift.Founder effectCompared with: Unlike selection, founder-driven frequency shifts arise from sampling chance rather than fitness differences.LamarckismCompared with: It explains adaptation through differential reproduction rather than bodily change caused by use.Population bottleneckCompared with: Unlike drift in a bottleneck, selection changes allele frequencies nonrandomly with respect to fitness.Jean-Baptiste LamarckCompared with: It became the principal alternative to Lamarck’s account of adaptive change.Directed evolutionCompared with: Directed evolution recreates selection under laboratory-controlled goals and conditions.Enzyme engineeringCompared with: Laboratory selection borrows its logic but uses controlled goals and artificial conditions.OrthogenesisCompared with: Orthogenesis proposed direction without the differential reproduction central to this mechanism.Hugo de VriesCompared with: De Vries emphasized the origin of variants, while selection explains how their frequencies can change.James LovelockCompared with: Evolutionary explanations challenge accounts of planetary regulation that imply selection acts on Earth as one organism.Teleological argumentCompared with: It explains adaptation without requiring each useful biological feature to be separately designed.Inheritance of Acquired CharacteristicsCompared with: It explains adaptation through differential reproduction rather than transmission of acquired bodily changes.Dominant traitCompared with: Dominance alone does not make a trait beneficial or favored by selection.Lady Amherst's pheasantCompared with: Its trade-offs with mate attraction help frame the costs of conspicuous plumage.Motoo KimuraCompared with: Neutral theory distinguishes drift-driven substitutions from changes driven by adaptive selection.Carl NägeliCompared with: Nägeli regarded selection as insufficient to explain the origin and direction of variation.