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Natural selection directs evolution; it cannot stop or prevent it.
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How much natural selection leads to evolution?
All natural selection results in evolution. But natural selection is not necessarily the only mechanism leading to evolution. There are processes at work on a molecular level, such as intragenomic conflict-type processes, that also result in differential reproductive success, but aren't exactly related to the kind of processes Darwin first described.
Which type of selection can result in branching evolution if it goes on long enough?
Natural selection is the type of selection that can result in a branching evolutionary tree if it goes on long enough. This is because organisms may eventually evolve into a distinct species.
Which type of natural selection tends to prevent evolution?
I would suppose stabilizing selection could do that. Selecting for the mean morphology and behavior would be somewhat in stasis if the environment did not change.
Which is the single most important type of mutation that eventually allows for evolution via natural selection to occur?
gene duplication (might give advantages)
What type of selection pushed Darwin's theory?
Natural Selection
What are the three types of evolution?
1. Directional selection 2. Disruptive selection 3. Stabilizing selection If you need to know more about them then just research. Trust me, it's easier to look it up than it is to ask the question.
Which type of selection tends to increase genetic variation?
Natural Selection.
What is the type of natural selection that favors intermediate phenotypes?
When natural selection favors the intermediate version of a characteristic, it is referred to as stabilizing selection. It is the opposite of disruptive selection.
Which type of natural selection favors average individual in a population?
It is stabilizing selection
Which type of natural selection in which the mean characteristics of a population are preserved?
This type of natural selection is called stabilizing selection because the mean traits of the population are being selected for against the immediate environment.
What type of selection that humans control?
Artificial selection.Artificial selection is the selection, by humans, of which individual plants or animals to breed from. In this way desirable characteristics, such as increased yield or disease resistance, can be preserved or improved.Charles Darwin used artificial seletion as a model for how evolution could take place in nature, where competiton between individuals replaced the selective action of humans. He called the natural process 'natural selection'.See http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIIE4Evochange.shtmlfor an excellent account.
What is the name of this type of evolutionary change?
Natural selection
