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Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms.

Variation. Struggle for existence. Selection. Heritability of traits. Adaptation of populations to environment. Leading to allele frequency change in populations over time; evolution.

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Q: Describe darwin's theory of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution?
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