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Natural selection is the driving force of Darwinian evolutionary change, and it occurs in any population whenever variation among individuals in the adaptation to their environment exists, where the environment of an individual is a broad concept covering both the physical environment and the biotic environment. The biotic environment is formed by the organisms which co-occur with the individual in question, e.g., its prey species, competitors, predators, and parasites, and it encompasses the population of conspecific individuals.
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Christiansen, F.B. (1990). Natural Selection: Measures and Modes. In: Wöhrmann, K., Jain, S.K. (eds) Population Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74474-7_3
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