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Adaptive change is the province of natural selection and natural selection is one of the main drivers of evolution. Natural selection selects from the individuals variations in a population of organisms on, basically, reproductive success and this adaption is passed on to progeny which changes the allele frequency in the population which is evolution.
No. Natural selection requires reproductive variation to work on. Besides reproductive variation and natural selection, there are various forces, biochemical as well as population dynamical, that affect the allelic composition of a population.
Darwin developed The theory of evolution by natural selection.So, to answer you question, all of it!You need to make a distinction between evolution, the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms, and natural selection, the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms. Natural selection is the main driver of evolution.
The natural change occurring in communities or ecosystems over time is referred to as Evolution.
Natural selection is a mechanism of adaptive change in evolution.
Evolution occurs in all life, all the time.
Adaptive change is the province of natural selection and natural selection is one of the main drivers of evolution. Natural selection selects from the individuals variations in a population of organisms on, basically, reproductive success and this adaption is passed on to progeny which changes the allele frequency in the population which is evolution.
In terms of a population, evolution is just the change of allele frequencies over time. Natural selection can cause certain advantageous alleles to increase in frequency, and detrimental alleles to decrease in frequency.
it relies upon the population
Evolution, of course. Evolution can happen without natural selection in some cases; drift, flow. Generally though, natural selection causes evolution and then, by definition, would come first.
How it can change in response to its enviroment
No, natural selection is believed to result in evolution.
Stabilizing selection occurs when the extreme forms of some trait are selected against by natural selection. It is a force of natural selection which causes evolution (definition: change of allele frequency in a population divided by time).
Perhaps not, but evolution can exist without natural selection.
Natural selection is one of the 'guiding' principles of evolution.
Evolution by natural selection.
No. Natural selection requires reproductive variation to work on. Besides reproductive variation and natural selection, there are various forces, biochemical as well as population dynamical, that affect the allelic composition of a population.