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Definition

Natural selection

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour

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Life

Most animals can’t keep a beat despite what Darwin believed

Culture

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Life

A chimp's hug shows it's time to accept that animals have feelings too

Culture

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Mind

It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think

Features

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Earth

Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life

Features

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

Life

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

Features

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Life

Lost 'Darwinia' islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos

News

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Life

The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

Culture

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Life

Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits

Culture

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Space

Don't miss: Darwinian premiere, what's really real and sun science

London's Natural History museum gets a new theatre, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe gets a book and the biggest exhibition about our star

Culture

Earth

The epic hunt for the place on Earth where life started

Features

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

Life

We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

Culture