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

• Sexual selectionNarrower topic: Sexual selection is a component of natural selection focused on reproductive differences.

• CamouflageNarrower topic: Predation and other pressures can favor traits that make organisms harder to detect.

• Social DarwinismNarrower topic: Social Darwinism recasts this biological process as a model for human institutions.

• AposematismNarrower topic: Selection can favor signals when they reduce attacks enough to offset their costs.

• MelaninNarrower topic: Selection helps explain the geographic distribution of human pigmentation.

• Parental careNarrower topic: Care can spread when it increases the number of surviving descendants.

• Alfred Russel WallaceNarrower topic: Wallace independently recognized it as a mechanism that can adapt populations to their conditions.

• Evolutionary psychologyNarrower topic: It supplies the central process by which proposed psychological adaptations could have evolved.

• Insecticide resistanceNarrower topic: Insecticide exposure favors insects with traits that let them survive treatment.

• CountershadingNarrower topic: Predation and other visual pressures can favor countershading over generations.

• Life history theoryNarrower topic: Selection favors allocation patterns that leave more descendants in particular environments.

• Inclusive fitnessNarrower topic: Inclusive fitness tracks genetic success under natural selection.

• Gene–culture coevolutionNarrower topic: Culturally created selection pressures change which genetic traits spread.

• Batesian mimicryNarrower topic: Predator avoidance can favor individuals whose resemblance to defended species is stronger.

• CoevolutionNarrower topic: Each species changes the traits favored in its interacting partner.

• Behavioral ecologyNarrower topic: It provides the evolutionary mechanism through which behavioral differences can spread.

• Drug resistanceNarrower topic: Drug exposure favors organisms that already carry traits allowing survival.

• Stephen Jay GouldNarrower topic: Gould defended natural selection while arguing that it was not evolution’s only relevant level or process.

• Richard DawkinsNarrower topic: Dawkins explains gene-centered evolution through this broader evolutionary mechanism.

• Defense mechanismNarrower topic: It can spread inherited traits that improve survival under attack.

• Herbicide resistanceNarrower topic: Herbicide treatment favors resistant variants that leave more descendants.

• SociobiologyNarrower topic: It is the central process sociobiology invokes to explain behavioral adaptation.

• Antifungal resistanceNarrower topic: Antifungal exposure favors fungal variants that can withstand the drug.

• Genetic loadNarrower topic: Selection changes the frequencies of the variants responsible for load.

• Host–parasite coevolutionNarrower topic: Host and parasite adaptations arise when heritable variants differ in reproductive success.

• AdaptationismNarrower topic: It is the central causal process adaptationist explanations invoke.

• Insular dwarfismNarrower topic: Island conditions change which inherited body sizes leave more descendants.

• Food cachingNarrower topic: Variation in caching and recovery can favor traits suited to local food conditions.

• TerrestrializationNarrower topic: Selection favored different solutions to the pressures of life outside water.

• The Descent of ManNarrower topic: The book applies Darwin’s established evolutionary mechanism to human ancestry and variation.

• The Selfish GeneNarrower topic: Dawkins explains gene replication through differential survival and reproduction.

• Predator defenseNarrower topic: Predators can favor inherited traits that improve prey survival.

• High-altitude adaptationNarrower topic: Repeated generations at altitude favored inherited traits that improved survival and reproduction.

• Sexual dichromatismNarrower topic: Predation and environmental conditions can favor sex-specific colors independently of mate choice.

• Robert TriversNarrower topic: Natural selection is the explanatory mechanism underlying Trivers’s accounts of behavior.

• MimicryNarrower topic: Selection can favor resemblance when it changes survival or reproductive success.

• Peppered mothNarrower topic: Differential survival of the moth’s color forms illustrates selection in a changing environment.

• Baldwin effectNarrower topic: The Baldwin effect operates through selection on inherited variation, not inheritance of learned traits.

• Lethal alleleNarrower topic: Selection removes lethal genotypes, though surviving carriers may preserve the allele.

• TimemaNarrower topic: Predation and host plants impose measurable selection on Timema color patterns.