No, they are two different things.
No, natural selection is believed to result in evolution.
No, it's exactly the other way around: natural selection causes adaptation.
According to evolutionary theory, natural selection is the principle that directs evolution.
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Natural selection.
Natural selection can help creatures adapt to their enviorment. Sometimes this can cause unwanted problems.
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They aren't. Intelligent design posits that natural selection cannot create life as we know it, and inserts a deity as the cause.
A population with differences has much better chance of surviving diseases.
Genetic variation. If there were no variation in the genes/phenotype then natural selection would have nothing to select from.
because the rocks are pretty