A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
User Defined Definitions
"the act of choosing or selecting"
"an assortment of things from which a choice can be made"
"the person or thing chosen or selected"
"a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment"