theory of natural selection

基本解释

Darwin's theory of natural selection is intended to answer this question.
达尔文的自然选择理论正是为了回答这个问题。
Darwin's theory of natural selection and Pasteur's germ theory revolutionized biology and medicine;
达尔文的自然选择理论和巴斯德的微生物理论变革了生物学和医学；
The idea that our mental terrain decides what information survives in our heads and what gets killed off finds a parallel with a venerable biological theory: Darwin's theory of natural selection.
我们的心理地形决定了什么信息能留在我们大脑里同时什么需要剔除，这个学说和一个已经被广为接受的生物理论很近似：达尔文的自然选择理论。

And she explains the theory of evolution through natural selection in a way that both children and adults will enjoy.
And it might occur to some of you that this seems to be an analogy with the Darwinian theory of natural selection where there's a random assortment of random mutations.
也许你们之中会有人觉得,这和达尔文的自然选择理论,看上去很相似,自然选择就是随机突变的随机分配。
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He developed the theory of evolution that life on Earth developed through the process of natural selection.

Charles Darwin, by contrast, found a lead for his theory of natural selection in the whimsical hobby of pigeon fancying, where the birds showed an enormous variety of form and behaviour.
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