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Darwinian fitness

the relative success of a particular organism or genotype in producing viable offspring, which is determined by natural selection. [Charles Darwin]

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pressure-threshold test

pressure-threshold test

a sensory test in which pressure sensitivity is measured with a series of hairs of graded stiffness.