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Which does natural selection affect populations or individuals?

Populations evolve, but individuals are selected. Natural selection affects individual organisms.


How does nonrandom mating affect evolution?

Non-random mating is otherwise known as sexual selection. Some see this as distinct from natural selection, but I think that sexual selection is merely a form of, or perhaps more a complication of natural selection. Selection, natural or sexual, is the effect that "guides" evolution, that allows evolution to produce populations suited to their environment.


How do differences between individuals and environments affect natural selection?

Differences between individuals may affect differences in their average reproductive success, causing the variant traits of individuals that have greater reproductive success (fitness) to become more prevalent in a given environment than rival traits. As environments change, so may the traits that have a reproductive advantage change. This is natural selection.


How can mutation affect evolution?

Mutation can serve up the raw variation that natural selection selects from, thus alleles are changed over time in populations of organisms; evolution.


How does selection affect natural selection?

Organisms are affected by Natural Selection because Inherited characteristics affected the likelihood of an organism's survival and reproduction.


Which does natural Which does natural selection affect?

natural selection is basiclly only the strong survive which means it effects the weak by killing them but bernifits the strong


How does natural selection affect variation?

Variation naturally occurs in populations as new traits arise from random mutations. However, through natural selection only those traits that are beneficial to the organism are passed on to the next generation. Any harmful mutations are naturally weeded out.


How could natural selection affect the songs that birds sing?

Through ongoing natural selection a population adapts to its enviroment


How does natural selection affect survival?

Natural selection is the process which determines the shark's evolution. It is humankind that is threatening the sharks' survival.


Does natural selection affect the survival of an individual or a species?

species


What other theories are there except for natural selection?

Evolution by natural selection is currently the only viable theory explaining the diversity of life. However, the mechanism of natural selection is not the only mechanism to affect evolution. There are phenomena such as genetic drift, biased gene conversion, intragenomic conflict, and so on, that aren't exactly the same as natural selection (although they are all intertwined and all affect one another), but do affect the direction of evolution.


How do humans affect artificial selection?

Humans directly affect artificial selection. They do this by selecting the specific traits that they prefer which they cannot don in a natural selection.