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Natural selection doesn't reduce variation. Variation is regulated by the rate of mutation.

Natural selection reduces the chance of bad variation from being passed on and increases the chances for good variation to be passed on.

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Natural selection will ultimately make a species?

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How natural selection help few species to survive and how few others got extinct?

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