organic selection
Biology
noun
A theory emphasizing the role of adaptive non-hereditary phenotypic or ontogenetic variations (especially those affecting the behaviour of an individual organism with respect to its environment) in evolutionary selection.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in James M. Baldwin (1861–1934).
- great horsetail
- great house
- Great Hunger
- Great Indian Desert
- Great Insertion
- greatish
- Great King
- Great Lake
- Great Lakes
- Great Lake State
- Great Land
- great laurel
- Great Leap Forward
- Great Lent
- great line
- greatly
- great magnolia
- great mallow
- great maple
- great mass
- Great Master
- Great Mastership
- great mean
- great migration
- great minds think alike