All natural selection synonyms

noun natural selection

• adaptation — An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it.
• social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
• survival of the fittest — (not in technical use) natural selection.
• darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
• artificial selection — a process in the breeding of animals and in the cultivation of plants by which the breeder chooses to perpetuate only those forms having certain desirable inheritable characteristics.
• law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
• natural law — a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
• phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
• social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).