Direct Fitness
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Direct Fitness or Darwinian Fitness is a central tenant of the Theory of evolution. It is the measurement of an individual organisms ability to reproduce. Direct fitness is measured as the proportion of genes a given individual contributes to the next generation due to its direct reproductive efforts. This can be contrasted with inclusive fitness which also includes the indirect fitness measure of genes contributed to the next generation based on aid given to relatives that are not direct descendants.
References
Campbell, N., Reece, J., et al. 2002. Biology. 6th ed. San Francisco, California. pp. 1145-1148.