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.
Darwin's Theory. In 1859, Charles Darwin set out his theory of evolution by natural selection as an explanation for adaptation and speciation. He defined natural selection as the principle by which each slight variation [of a trait], if useful, is preserved.n a letter to Charles Lyell in September 1860, Darwin regretted the use of the term Natural Selection, preferring the term Natural Preservation. For Darwin and his contemporaries, natural selection was in essence synonymous with evolution by natural selection.