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Survival of the fittest
適者生存

The phenomenon that those individuals with favourable variations will be better adapted to the environment and can survive and reproduce. On the other hand, those individuals with unfavourable variations will compete less well and will be less likely to breed (Book 3, p.260)

描述擁有優良變異而適應力較強的生物,比擁有不良變異而適應力較弱的生物更容易生存和繁殖後代的現象。

Related terms: evolution (演化), natural selection (自然選擇)

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