Differential reproduction of heritable variants. Selection coefficient s = 1 − w (relative fitness); time to fixation ~ (1/s)·ln(2N_e) for beneficial alleles under strong selection.
Natural selection
Related concepts
- Allele
- Heritability
- Sexual selection
- Kin selection / Hamilton's rule
- Modern synthesis
- Convergent evolution
- Exaptation
- Red Queen hypothesis
- Mass extinction
- Ecological niche
- Optimal foraging theory
- Biogeography
- Genetic hitchhiking
- Genetic load
- Biodiversity
- Incidence and prevalence
- Fossil record
- Habitable zone
- Wallace line
- Clonal evolution of cancer