How does natural selection produce adaptaions in a species?

Answer 1

Variant traits that increase the number of offspring become common in a population, causing the overal morphology and behaviour of the population to continuously shift to give the best reproductive chances for any given environment.

Answer 2

Mutations produce trillions of variations, amounting to animals that are stronger, weaker, taller, shorter, smarter, dumber, faster, slower and everything else you can think of. Natural selection is the tendency of the harmful variations to become less common because their possessors survive and reproduce less often, and the useful ones to become more common because their possessors survive longer and reproduce more often.

Answer 3

Natural selection looks for the best traits to fit the current environment of a species. Now, natural selection does not directly cause an adaptation. This is how it works: if a mutation causes a species to produce more surviving offspring that inherit that trait, than many many many generations down the line it would be considered an adaptation.

Answer 4

Natural selections means that the fittest will survive. The way that natural selection works to produce adaptations is through change. Changes occur in order to make the fittest even stronger in future generations. Over time these adaptations are what make future generations even stronger.
Natural selection works to produce adaptations by causing the fittest of each animal to mate successfully. A creature that adapts well to its environment will be among the most fit and will breed and survive.

Answer 5

Natural selection doesn't just aid in adaptation; it's the primary mechanism responsible for adaptation. By weeding out the less reproductively fit, natural selection (usually) ensures that populations maintain an optimal reproductive fitness, relative to their surroundings.

Answer 6

A characteristic that makes an individual better suited to its environment may eventually become common in that species through natural selection. I hope this was good enough I just got it out of my book!!!