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Well, since natural selection uses the enviromment as selector we can see through the fossil record what happened to horses. I will cover two major adaption of horses.Proto-horses, when they lived in forests, has toes. The forests retreated and the plains selected horses that were fusing their toes into hooves over many years of mutation and natural selection. Plains running is better done with hooves, unless you are a wolf or lion. Also in the forest proto-horses were small, as befitted a forest environment, but when the forest disappeared long legs were needed to out run predators and those variant horses that developed them over time in the population survived and reproduced progeny with the same traits and these progeny could improve on those traits being variant themselves.
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What process in which organisims with traits well suited to an environment are more likely to survive and to produce offspring is?
This process is called natural selection. It is the mechanism by which traits that provide a survival or reproductive advantage to an organism become more common in a population over time.
What comes first mutation or natural selection?
Natural selection can only work on genetic variation that already exists. So mutation comes first, then natural selection.
How has the natural selection harmed the ecosystem?
It hasn't. Natural selection is a key part of the ecosystem itself.
What does natural selection have to do with biodiversity?
Natural selection is the mechanism primarily responsible for the development of today's biodiversity.
Is Natural selection a source of genetic variation in a population?
No, natural selection works on that genetic variation presented to it.
How does selection affect natural selection?
Organisms are affected by Natural Selection because Inherited characteristics affected the likelihood of an organism's survival and reproduction.
What is affected by Natural selection?
Humans
Which mutations are NOT subject to natural selection - lethal physiological neutral or morphological?
Neutral mutations confer no benefits or handicaps and are therefore not affected by natural selection.
How does sexual natural selection affected the appearance of male guppies?
Because of the environment they live in.
How were wild horses introduced?
When the spanish came to America and brought horses, some of these horses were released into the wild or escaped and they bred and through natural selection only the strongest and hardiest survive into wild horses.
Why are not Americans affected with sickle cell anaemia?
natural selection and heredity Americans are affected with sickle cell anaemia which mostly affects black people.
When farmers select the largest hogs the fastest horses or the cows that produce the most milk for breeding is called?
This is called selective breeding or artificial selection, opposed to natural selection.
What is the name for the process in which the organisms best adapted to their environment survive?
Its NaTuRaL sElEcTiOn if you didn't know.
Adaptation which allows for natural selection is called?
Adaptation does not allow for natural selection: natural selection causes adaptation.
Are technology and human evolution symbiotic or independent?
If you're referring to genetic evolution through natural selection, it's far too slow to have been affected by technology, or even civilization. However, technology affects every aspect of human life, so even natural selection will be greatly affected by it given a large enough timescale.
What is the prefix and suffix of natural selection?
The prefix of natural selection is "natural" and the suffix is "-tion".
Are horses affected by oil spills?
No horses are not effected by the oil spill only animals that live in the ocean.So no horses don't get affected by the oil spill.
