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Natural selection is the mechanism put forward by Darwin as one of the two essential mechanisms for evolution, the other being random mutation (which Darwin described as inheritable variation, not knowing about genes at the time).

The modern evolutionary synthesis includes genetic mutations as the mechanism which provides variations upon which natural selection can act.

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