What is the fundamental idea behind natural selection?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
? In a given species living in a particular environment, some individuals with a genetically influenced trait tend to be more successful than others in finding food, surviving the elements, and fending off enemies, and are therefore better at staying alive long enough to produce offspring.
? As a result, their genes will become more and more common in the population, having been "selected" by reproductive success.
? Over many generations, these genes may even spread throughout the species.
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