"Are the rapid changes now being driven by humans too much for adaptation to combat? At the heart of these questions is the power of natural selection to bring about evolutionary adaptation in natural populations."

The primary mechanism of adaptive evolution is natural selection, whereby organisms possessing traits that improve their evolutionary 'fitness' — their survival and reproduction — contribute more genes to subsequent generations. Yet perceptions of the power of selection have recently swung at the end of a pendulum.Feb 16, 2005

The power of natural selection | Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/433694a