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Darwin's theory of natural selection
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*Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
*More individuals are produced each generation that can survive.
*Phenotypic variation exists among individuals and the variation is heritable.
*Those individuals with heritable traits better suited to the environment will survive.
*When reproductive isolation occurs new species will form.
These are the basic tenets of evolution by natural selection as defined by Darwin. The following is a quote from Darwin.
"Variation is a feature of natural populations and every population produces more progeny than its environment can manage. The consequences of this overproduction is that those individuals with the best genetic fitness for the environment will produce offspring that can more successfully compete in that environment. Thus the subsequent generation will have a higher representation of these offspring and the population will have evolved."
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- Darwin’s theory of natural selection states that all the organisms have great capacity to reproduce.
- As a result population of organisms increases at high rate.
- All the organisms compete with each other for food and space.
- In this competition, only those organisms survive which modified according to the environmental conditions.
- The nature selects only those organisms which are fit to live and the remaining disappears.
- The selected organisms live and perform reproduction.
- They give rise to the new species with their own specific characters.