| 单词 | organic selection |
| 释义 | > as lemmasorganic selection organic selection n. Biology a theory emphasizing the role of adaptive non-hereditary phenotypic or ontogenetic variations (esp. those affecting the behaviour of an individual organism with respect to its environment) in evolutionary selection. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > selection natural selection1842 selection1857 survival of the fittest1864 selection value1892 organic selection1896 post-selection1896 orthoselection1907 survival value1912 kin selection1964 r selection1967 1896 J. M. Baldwin in Amer. Naturalist 30 444 We may simply..apply the phrase, ‘Organic Selection’, to the organism's behavior in acquiring new modes or modifications of adaptive function. 1942 J. S. Huxley Evolution vi. 304 We have here a beautiful special case of the principle of organic selection,..according to which modifications repeated for a number of generations may serve as the first step in evolutionary change. 1970 T. Dobzhansky Genetics Evol. Process ix. 303 The term organic selection has been coined to describe the parallelism between racial genotypic and environmental phenotypic variability. 1991 Ecology 72 1909/1 A modified version of organic selection in which animals, through their behaviour, select the environment to which they are adapted. < as lemmas |
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