{"id":8524,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/natural_selection\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:38","slug":"natural_selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/natural_selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major force in evolution co-discovered by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), natural selection serves as a filter in preserving reproductively successful developmental outcomes and acting against outcomes that impede successful reproduction and the rearing of offspring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"baldwin_effect\">Baldwin effect<\/a>, <a href=\"co-evolution\">Co-evolution<\/a>, <a href=\"darwinism\">Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"evolutionary_biology\">Evolutionary biology<\/a>, <a href=\"evolutionary_niche_theory\">Evolutionary niche theory<\/a>, <a href=\"modern_synthesis\">Modern synthesis<\/a>, <a href=\"natural_selection\">Natural selection<\/a>, <a href=\"neo-darwinism\">Neo-Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_natural_selection\">Theory of natural selection<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_neuronal_group_selection_-tngs-\">Theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS)<\/a>, <a href=\"ultimate_mechanisms_-or_causes-\">Ultimate mechanisms (or causes)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major force in evolution co-discovered by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), natural selection serves as a filter in preserving reproductively successful developmental outcomes and acting against outcomes that impede successful reproduction and the rearing of offspring.&nbsp; See Baldwin effect, Co-evolution, Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary niche theory, Modern synthesis, Natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/natural_selection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Natural selection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}