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自然選択 (shizensentaku) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

自し然ぜん選せん択たく

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Meanings

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natural selection

The core evolutionary mechanism by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

ダーウィンは自し然ぜん選せん択たくによって進しん化かが起おこると提

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Darwin proposed that evolution occurs through natural selection.

自し然ぜん選せん択たくは、環かん境きょうに適てき応おうした個こ体たいが生いき残のこる仕し組くみだ。

Natural selection is a mechanism by which individuals adapted to the environment survive.

Kanji

自oneself
然sort of thing, so, if so
選elect, select, choose
択choose, select, elect

Related words

進しん化か
進化 is the broader process of evolution, while 自然選択 is one of its key mechanisms.
適てき者しゃ生せい存ぞん
適者生存 ('survival of the fittest') is a phrase often associated with natural selection, but 自然選択 refers more precisely to the differential reproductive success.

Built from

自し然ぜん+選せん択たく

Etymology

Compound of 自然 (しぜん, 'nature') and 選択 (せんたく, 'selection'). Calque of English 'natural selection', coined in the late 19th century to translate Darwin's concept.