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The most important directional "force" in evolution is natural selection, or differential reproductive success.

Under natural selection I include sexual selection. Note that other people may list these two forms of selection under separate headers. Sexual selection is when organisms display preferences for mates with specific attributes, such as a colourful plumage, or broad hips and large mammaries.

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