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

• August WeismannRelated: Weismann made natural selection the main explanation for adaptive change rather than inherited bodily modification.

• 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.

• Joseph Dalton HookerRelated: Hooker’s acceptance and advocacy strengthened the scientific reception of Darwin’s proposed mechanism.

• Max DelbrückRelated: Delbrück and Luria distinguished selection of resistant bacteria from the origin of their mutations.

• MutationismRelated: Mutationists differed over whether selection creates adaptive direction or mainly filters mutations.

• Niche constructionRelated: Environmental modifications change which inherited traits affect survival and reproduction.

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

• Teleological argumentCompared with: It explains adaptation without requiring each useful biological feature to be separately designed.

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

• Inheritance of Acquired CharacteristicsCompared with: It explains adaptation through differential reproduction rather than transmission of acquired bodily changes.

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

• Parallel evolutionRelated: Similar environments can favor similar traits independently in related lineages.

• GuppyRelated: Different predator regimes select for distinct guppy traits.

• History of lifeRelated: It can adapt populations to changing conditions and contribute to evolutionary divergence.

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

• Biological anthropologyRelated: It helps explain adaptations in human and primate populations.

• CrossbillRelated: Differences in bill fit can favor crossbills able to exploit locally common cones.

• Evolutionary ecologyRelated: Ecological differences in survival and reproduction generate selection on evolving populations.

• Divergent evolutionRelated: Different environments favor different inherited traits, driving populations apart.

• History of evolutionary thoughtBroader topic: Darwin and Wallace made it a central mechanism of adaptive evolution.

• Human skin colorRelated: Selection shaped pigmentation where ultraviolet exposure affected survival and reproduction.

• MacroevolutionRelated: Selection can shape adaptations that accumulate across populations and lineages.

• SymbiogenesisRelated: Selection can favor stable partnerships and traits that make their integration beneficial.

• Dominant traitCompared with: Dominance alone does not make a trait beneficial or favored by selection.

• Evolution of sexual reproductionRelated: Selection determines whether the costs and benefits of sexual reproduction promote its spread.

• Evolutionary linguisticsRelated: Biological evolution can favor traits that support language learning, production, or cooperation.

• Function (biology)Related: Selection can preserve traits because of effects that contribute to reproductive success.

• Human evolutionary geneticsRelated: Selection explains adaptations and other allele-frequency changes linked to reproductive success.

• Lady Amherst's pheasantCompared with: Its trade-offs with mate attraction help frame the costs of conspicuous plumage.

• MicroevolutionRelated: Selection changes allele frequencies when inherited traits affect reproductive success.

• Motoo KimuraCompared with: Neutral theory distinguishes drift-driven substitutions from changes driven by adaptive selection.

• Theoretical ecologyRelated: Ecological conditions shape selection, while evolution can alter ecological interactions.

• Alternatives to Darwinian evolutionBroader topic: It is the Darwinian mechanism these alternatives challenge, qualify, or supplement.

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

• Biological phenomenaRelated: It produces population-level patterns from differences in individual reproductive success.

• Carl NägeliCompared with: Nägeli regarded selection as insufficient to explain the origin and direction of variation.

• Evolution of bacteriaRelated: It changes bacterial populations when variants differ in survival under environmental pressures.

• Evolutionary origin of religionRelated: It is one proposed route by which traits related to religious behavior could evolve.

• Genetic phenomenaRelated: Genetic variants that affect reproduction can change in frequency through selection.

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

• PhylliidaeRelated: Predation can favor leaf-like traits that make Phylliidae harder to detect.

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