natural selecton

Stearns SC & Hoekstra RF 2000 Evolution: an introduction. Oxford UP. ISBN:0198549687

• the loose application of 'natural selection' to the entire process, including the response enabled by heritable variation, is confusing
• we therefore use 'natural selection' to refer just to the correlation of reproductive success with a trait
• when we want to refer to the complete process, including the genetic response to selection, we use the phrase 'adaptive evolution'
• (p. 12)