Environmental Thesaurus

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/21026

Preferred Name

natural selection

Definitions

[Henderson's] the process by which evolutionary change is chiefly driven according to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Environmental factors such as climate, disease, competition from other organisms, and availability of certain types of food will lead to the preferential survival and reproduction of those members of a popu­lation genetically best fitted to deal with them. Continued selection will therefore lead to certain genes becoming more common in subsequent generations. Such selection, operating over very long periods of time is believed to be able to give rise to the considerable differences now seen between different organisms.

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Type

http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept

scopeNote

US LTER controlled vocabulary

creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

definition

[Henderson's] the process by which evolutionary change is chiefly driven according to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Environmental factors such as climate, disease, competition from other organisms, and availability of certain types of food will lead to the preferential survival and reproduction of those members of a popu­lation genetically best fitted to deal with them. Continued selection will therefore lead to certain genes becoming more common in subsequent generations. Such selection, operating over very long periods of time is believed to be able to give rise to the considerable differences now seen between different organisms.

note

[controlled by ] Mark Frenzel, 22 May 2013

prefLabel

natural selection

created

2016-03-31

broader

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20982

modified

2018-12-18

exactMatch

https://vocab.lternet.edu/vocab/vocab/?tema=360

http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_32698

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/natural_selection

http://linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/resource/EARTh/24860

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