All varation between individuals is due only to environmental factors
The population lives in a habitat where there are no competing species present.
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are
There are really no steps in natural selection - just conditions required for it to occur.
This type of natural selection is called stabilizing selection because the mean traits of the population are being selected for against the immediate environment.
when there is competition
What population? Perhaps you mean if there were no variation for natural selection to select from.
It's the other way around: natural selection is the natural process that causes the frequencies of occurence of alleles in the population gene pool to shift.
sample data drawn from one population is completely unrelated to the selection of sample data from the other population.
sample data drawn from one population is completely unrelated to the selection of sample data from the other population.
If a population exists in an environment that changes very little, then natural selection may not provide any pressure to change. However, even under these conditions genetic driftoccurs, introducing random change within the parameters set by natural selection.
A beneficial mutation leading to variability in a population and the heritability of those beneficial traits.
in an unchanging environment, selection in a well adapted population is?
Natural selection does work on preexisting variations in a population. This is how the population was shaped to be the way that they currently are or were.
Directional Selection - APEX
Very large population, isolation from other population, no net mutation, random mating, no natural selection...if these conditions are met, the status would be in equilibrium or in other words there is no change.
It is stabilizing selection
Natural selection requires that individuals in a population are
It's the other way around: natural selection is the natural process that causes the frequencies of occurence of alleles in the population gene pool to shift.