At a Sunday private equity conference at Harvard Business School, David Rubenstein, co-founder of Washington, DC-based Carlyle Group, shared five skills that he believes are among the building blocks to a successful private equity career. âIâm looking for people who are reasonably intelligentâ said Mr. Rubenstein.
Natural selection definition, the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations.
Biology. any natural or artificial process that results in differential reproduction among the members of a population so that the inheritable traits of only certain individuals are passed on, or are passed on in greater proportion, to succeeding generations. Compare natural selection, sexual selection, kin selection, artificial selection. 5.