Environmental Sciences, asked by jsathwik2791, 1 year ago

Does environmental pressure change everyday?

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Answered by TheDoubtMaster
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How does environmental pressure affect natural selection?

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Jeremy Teman, Former Evolutionary Biology SI.

Answered Apr 14, 2016 · Author has 130 answers and 391.4k answer views

Without environmental pressure, natural selection doesn't happen. 

With respect to a trait of a given population, the necessary and sufficient conditions for natural selection to occur are i) variability, ii) heritability iii) differential fitness by means of selective pressure.

A population of organisms lives in an environment.  Any selective pressure is an environmental pressure.  There are biotic and abiotic pressures.  

Biotic pressures are things like predation, pathogens, or anything that involves interacting with other life.

An example of abiotic pressure would be temperature.  Some organisms within the population may have slight advantages over another at being able to withstand extremes.  So they have increased chance of survival and reproduction.  Hence, they are more likely to be "selected".

Answered by neha4275
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Yess but not usually noticable it is..
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