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The process whereby individuals more suited to a particular environment or food source tend to pass on their advantage to descendants.

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Why did dawin create the thory of natral selection?

Darwin created the theory of natural selection to explain how species evolve and adapt to their environment over time. He observed variations in organisms and environments that led him to propose that only the fittest individuals with advantageous traits would survive and reproduce, passing on those traits to their offspring. This process drives the gradual change and diversity seen in living organisms.


Why is it important that scientific reasoning be objective?

It would be important because scientific reasoning is a diverse way to study the natral world.


Compare Natural selection and sexual selection by completing the table?

Natural Selection vs. Sexual Selection | Aspect | Natural Selection | Sexual Selection | |----------------------|------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------| | Definition | The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce. | A form of selection arising from the preference of one sex for specific traits in the other sex. | | Mechanism | Driven by environmental factors and survival advantages. | Driven by mate choice and competition for mates. | | Examples | Camouflage, resistance to disease, and resource acquisition. | Bright plumage in birds, elaborate courtship behaviors, and antlers in male deer. | | Outcome | Increases overall fitness and adaptation of the population. | Enhances reproductive success, potentially at the cost of survival. |


Which is more likely to be true natural selection or evolution?

Evolution, of course. Evolution can happen without natural selection in some cases; drift, flow. Generally though, natural selection causes evolution and then, by definition, would come first.


Which kind of selection eliminates extreme phenotypes?

disruptive selection