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genetic drift, mutation, natural selection, and migration

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Evolution can occur through a variety of mechanisms. what best describes how gene flow can occur?

An individual organism moves into a new population


The mechanism of evolution is?

The main mechanism of adaptive change is natural selection. There are other mechanisms of evolution though Google ' mechanisms of evolution. '


How are evolution and natural selection related?

Natural selection is one of the mechanisms that shapes adaptation and enables evolution.


What is the principles of mechanisms?

The leading theory concerning the mechanism of evolution is natural selection.


How is natural selection and evolution linked?

Natural selection is one of the 'guiding' principles of evolution.


What are the main mechanisms used by secular scientists to explain evolution?

All educated and not ideologically blinded scientists explain evolution by three primary mechanisms. Genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection.I have the feeling you do not know what secular means.


Do any qualified scientists support evolution?

The vast majority of scientists support evolution. There is no longer any debate in the scientific community about whether evolution occurs, only the mechanisms in which evolution acts upon is debated.


Does Evolution occur slowly?

yes.


Why are adaptations evidence of evolution?

Because adaptations are an observed effect of evolution. They could not happen if evolution did not occur.


What are three mechanisms of crustal thickening that occur at convergent boundaries?

Three mechanisms for crustal thickening are magmatic intrusion, sedimentation, and faulting.


What are six factors of macroevolution?

I'm not sure that there exists such a thing as "factors of macro-evolution". Macro-evolution is simply what happens when reproductively isolated populations continue to diverge as a result of micro-evolution. They drift apart genetically, behaviourally and morphologically, so that the differences between them become greater and greater. The mechanisms that cause this are reproductive variation and differential reproductive success, the principal mechanisms of evolution.


How are organisms related to evolution?

Organisms are required for evolution to occur. Evolution is defined as something that happens when organisms reproduce.