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Natural selection is often portrayed by laymen is a black-and-white process, a process that acts by killing off all less fit organisms. Fitness itself is often portrayed by these same laymen as referring to an organism's health, strength, intelligence, speed. Neither is correct. Natural selection is a stochastic process: it works through averages. And it doesn't work by killing off less-fit organisms only: it works through reproductive success; the average chance of an organism raising fertile offspring. And fitness refers only to the average reproductive success that a particular combination of traits proffers.
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What is the name for the process in which the organisms best adapted to their environment survive?
Its NaTuRaL sElEcTiOn if you didn't know.
Adaptation which allows for natural selection is called?
Adaptation does not allow for natural selection: natural selection causes adaptation.
What is the prefix and suffix of natural selection?
The prefix of natural selection is "natural" and the suffix is "-tion".
How does genetic variation support Natural Selection?
Genetic variation in itself does not 'support' natural selection: it is what natural selection acts upon.
The mechanism by which organisms evolve is known as?
Natural Selection
What principles includes variation and competition?
Natural selection.
What was Darwin's overall conclusion regarding natural selection?
That selection was natural.
Is natural selection a form of adaptation?
Natural selection is what causes adaptation.
Is natural selection an example of macroevolution?
No, natural selection is the mechanism that drivesevolution.
What is another term for the surivival of the fittest?
Natural selection
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce is called?
natural selection
What is the selective agent in natural selection?
They are the selective agent in natural selection ;)
