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.
Although the modern theory of biological evolution by natural selection is well accepted among professional biologists, there is still controversy about whether natural selection selects for fit genes or fit organisms or fit species. Evolution by natural selection is a theory about the process of change. Although Darwin's original theory did not specify that genes account for an organism's heritable traits, that is now universally accepted among modern evolutionists.