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Natural selection
自然選擇

The process in which the nature selects those individuals that are better adapted to the environment and allows them to survive and reproduce, but eliminates those less well adapted ones (Book 3, p.260)

形容大自然挑選那些適應力較強的個體,讓它/牠們繼續生存並且繁殖後代,同時淘汰那些適應力較弱的個體的過程。

Related terms: survival of the fittest (適者生存), evolution (演化)

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