Natural selection over time boils down to just this: Better-adapted individuals leave behind more offspring

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Author Michael Shermer offers us a pithy definition of natural selection:  “Natural selection simply means that those individuals with variations better suited to their environment leave behind more offspring than individuals that are less well adapted.” Michael Shermer, Darwin Misunderstood, Scientific American, Feb. 2009, at 34 (emphasis added).

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