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.
Evolution refers to any genetic change in a population, whereas natural selection specifies one particular way in which such changes are brought about. Natural selection is the most important agent of evolutionary change simply because it results in adaptation of an organism to its environment. Other possible mechanisms of evolution besides natural selection include gene flow, meiotic drive, and genetic drift.