An evolutionary process without variation and selection.

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Natural selection successfully explains how organisms accumulate adaptive change despite that traits acquired over a lifetime are eliminated at the end of each generation. However, in some domains that exhibit cumulative, adaptive change-e.g. cultural evolution, and earliest life-acquired traits are retained; these domains do not face the problem that Darwin's theory was designed to solve. Lack of transmission of...

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