EVOLUTION
DARWIN’S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
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Question
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Low fitness
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High fitness
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Lack of fitness
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Slight fitness
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Detailed explanation-1: -Darwin called this mechanism natural selection. Natural selection, also known as “survival of the fittest, ” is the more prolific reproduction of individuals with favorable traits that survive environmental change because of those traits.
Detailed explanation-2: -The essence of Darwin’s theory is that natural selection will occur if three conditions are met. These conditions, highlighted in bold above, are a struggle for existence, variation and inheritance.
Detailed explanation-3: -survival of the fittest, term made famous in the fifth edition (published in 1869) of On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin, which suggested that organisms best adjusted to their environment are the most successful in surviving and reproducing.