Latest edit on Wikipedia natural selection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection
"...Natural selection is the process where heritable traits that make
it more likely for an organism to survive long enough to reproduce
become more common over successive generations of a population. It is
a key mechanism of evolution....."

In what way is the concept changed by whomever is this individual who
wrote the opening paragraph , below by replacing common with
preserved. And what is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics,
who says so and how would one falsify such a concept. What is this
persons view on the fact the there is no mathematical formula in the
opening paragraph.

=== Replace "more common" with "preserved" ===
"...Natural selection is the process where heritable traits that make
it more likely for an organism to survive long enough to reproduce
become preserved over successive generations of a population. It is a
key mechanism of evolution..."

=== Replace "common" with "preserved" ===
"...Natural selection is the process where heritable traits that make
it more likely for an organism to survive long enough to reproduce
become more preserved over successive generations of a population. It
is a key mechanism of evolution..."

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