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Natural selection

Natural selection is the phrase Charles Darwin used in 1859 for the process he proposed to explain the origin of species and their apparent adaptation to their environment.

Note:The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Natural selection", which has been released under theGNU Free Documentation License.
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