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The 143 pages that link to Natural selection, each with the reason it gives.

• Sexual dimorphismRelated: Differences between the sexes can evolve when traits affect survival or reproduction differently.

• BiodiversityRelated: It shapes genetic variation and adaptations that contribute to biological differences.

• Antimicrobial resistanceRelated: Drug exposure favors resistant variants, increasing their share of a microbial population.

• Convergent evolutionRelated: Similar selective pressures can favor similar adaptations in lineages that evolve independently.

• Population geneticsRelated: It shifts allele frequencies when genetic variants affect reproductive success.

• Human evolutionRelated: It favored traits suited to changing climates, diets, pathogens, and ways of life.

• MutationRelated: Selection changes the frequencies of mutations that affect reproductive success.

• EvolutionRelated: It changes inherited traits when some variants leave more offspring than others.

• Evolutionary biologyRelated: It explains adaptation when inherited differences affect survival or reproduction.

• Endosymbiotic theoryRelated: Selection could favor host–symbiont partnerships that improved survival and reproduction.

• Genetic diversityRelated: Selection can favor some variants while reducing others, changing genetic diversity.

• HomininRelated: Selection can explain how hominin traits changed across generations.

• Evolutionary developmental biologyRelated: Selection acts on traits that developmental processes produce and inherited variation can modify.

• SpeciesRelated: Different environments can select traits that contribute to lineage divergence.

• Allele frequencyRelated: Selection changes allele frequencies when alleles affect reproductive success.

• Modern synthesisRelated: The synthesis joined this Darwinian mechanism to genetic inheritance.

• Linkage disequilibriumRelated: Selection can create associations among alleles at loci affecting or linked to a selected trait.

• DenisovanRelated: Selection helped preserve some Denisovan-derived variants that benefited modern humans in particular environments.

• AdaptationRelated: Differential reproductive success is the main process that shapes adaptations.

• Common descentRelated: Selection shapes inherited differences after lineages share an ancestor.

• Ronald FisherRelated: Fisher modeled how selection changes gene frequencies across generations.

• SpeciationRelated: Different environments can favor divergent adaptations in separated populations.

• GradualismRelated: Repeated selection can gradually alter populations across generations.

• TeleologyRelated: It produces adaptations that appear designed for ends without foresight.

• Chemical defenseRelated: Predator and pathogen pressures can favor organisms with effective chemical defenses.

• Darwin's finchesRelated: Differences in food supply favor finches whose beaks perform particular tasks well.

• Ernst HaeckelRelated: Haeckel promoted Darwin’s proposed mechanism while adding broader claims about evolution.

• Pesticide resistanceRelated: Pesticide exposure favors resistant pests, increasing resistance traits across generations.

• Genetic variationRelated: Selection raises or lowers variant frequencies when genetic differences affect reproductive success.

• Evolutionary game theoryRelated: It turns payoff advantages into unequal reproductive success.

• Human genetic variationRelated: Selection can increase or reduce variants that influence reproductive success.

• MyrmecophagyRelated: It can favor traits that make defended, colony-dwelling prey easier to exploit.

• Allopatric speciationRelated: Different environments can favor different traits in the separated populations.

• Antigenic driftRelated: Variants that reproduce despite population immunity can increase in frequency.

• DarwinismRelated: It is the central process Darwinism uses to explain adaptation.

• Hardy–Weinberg principleRelated: Selection changes allele frequencies, breaking the principle’s no-evolutionary-force condition.

• RNA world hypothesisRelated: RNA variants could evolve if copying preserved differences that influenced replication.

• MalthusianismRelated: Darwin adapted Malthus’s struggle over limited resources into a mechanism of evolutionary change.

• MemeticsRelated: Memetics adapts selection’s logic to differences in cultural persistence and spread.

• Molecular evolutionRelated: Selection changes sequence frequencies when variants affect reproductive success.

• Mosaic evolutionRelated: Distinct environments and functions impose different selective pressures on separate traits.

• J. B. S. HaldaneRelated: Haldane quantified how selection changes the frequencies of genetic variants.

• Clonal evolutionRelated: Selection changes the relative abundance of cell clones with different traits.

• VestigialityRelated: Reduced structures can persist when selection against them is weak or their costs are small.

• Social behaviorRelated: It shapes behavioral tendencies when those tendencies affect survival or reproduction.

• Hominin evolutionRelated: Selection can explain how environmental pressures shaped hominin adaptations.

• Sexual size dimorphismRelated: Ecological pressures can favor different body sizes in the two sexes.

• Theistic evolutionRelated: It is a central evolutionary process that theistic evolution generally treats as a means of creation.

• Theodosius DobzhanskyRelated: Dobzhansky showed how selection can alter genetic variation within natural populations.

• Viral evolutionRelated: Variants that replicate or transmit more successfully can become more common in a viral population.