unnatural selection
Human-guided evolution
Unnatural selection is human intervention in reproduction or survival that sidesteps natural evolutionary pressures.
The phrase plays on Darwin's "natural selection," implying deliberate or artificial manipulation: selective breeding, genetic engineering, or social policies that determine who thrives.
It often carries critical undertones, suggesting something perverse or against nature: Factory farming is unnatural selection at its worst.
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- test tube babiesOffspring conceived outside the womb
- evolutionary theoryScience of species change
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- anthropocentrismBelief prioritizing human significance
extinction events · cloning · Frankenstein's monster · gene editing · cultivation · factory farming · biotechnology · genetic engineering · habitat destruction · antibiotic resistance · domestication · climate change · seed banks · hybridization · trophy hunting · urbanization · pollution · designer babies
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Differential reproductive success
survival of the fittest · natural processes · sexual selection · random mutation · genetic drift
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