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

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

• Jean-Baptiste LamarckCompared with: It became the principal alternative to Lamarck’s account of adaptive change.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Directed evolutionCompared with: Directed evolution recreates selection under laboratory-controlled goals and conditions.

• 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.

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

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

• Enzyme engineeringCompared with: Laboratory selection borrows its logic but uses controlled goals and artificial conditions.

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Denisovan admixtureRelated: Selection increased the frequency of some useful archaic variants after admixture.

• Nature (natural world)Related: It explains how populations change without deliberate design.

• OrthogenesisCompared with: Orthogenesis proposed direction without the differential reproduction central to this mechanism.

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

• Animal evolutionRelated: It favors inherited traits that improve reproductive success in particular environments.

• Evolutionary anthropologyRelated: It explains how environmental pressures can shape human adaptations.

• Gaia hypothesisRelated: Gaia’s critics asked how planetary-scale regulation could arise through selection among organisms.

• 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.