natural selection
英 [ˌnætʃrəl sɪˈlekʃn]
美 [ˌnætʃrəl sɪˈlekʃn]
n. 自然选择; 物竞天择
牛津词典
noun
- 自然选择；物竞天择
the process by which plants, animals, etc. that can adapt to their environment survive and reproduce, while the others disappear
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT (生物的)自然选择，物竞天择，适者生存
Natural selectionis a process by which species of animals and plants that are best adapted to their environment survive and reproduce, while those that are less well adapted die out.- Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
自然选择确保只有最适应环境的物种得以存活下来，把基因传给下一代。
- Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
英英释义
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
双语例句
- He concluded that these expressions evolved through natural selection.
他得出结论，这此表达方式经自然选择演变而来。 - His theory of natural selection is based on the principle of the survival of the fittest.
他的自然选择理论就是基于适者生存的原则。 - It's Darwinian, the law of natural selection.
这是达尔文的自然选择规律。 - It's Darwin's principle of natural selection in action.
这是达尔文的自然选择原则的行动。 - Financial history is essentially the result of institutional mutation and natural selection.
金融史实质上就是制度突变和自然选择的结果。 - Genomic studies of natural variation in model organisms provide a bridge between molecular analyses of gene function and evolutionary investigations of adaptation and natural selection.
在模式生物中的自然变异的遗传学研究提供了一个在基因功能分子分析和对适应性及自然选择的进化研究的桥梁。 - In this case, natural selection would tend to add to the stature of the plant.
在此种情况下，自然选择就有增加植物高度的倾向。 - A major implication of Darwin and Wallace's theory of natural selection is that all life forms, living and extinct, are descended from a single common ancestor.
达尔文和华莱士的物竞天择理论都蕴含一个主要的观点：即所有现存和已灭绝的生命形式都起源于同一个共同的祖先。 - Natural selection has tended to reduce this randomization.
自然选择往往倾向于减少这种随机化现象。 - Biology is driven by random mutations and natural selection.
生物进程基于随机突变和自然选择。