Description
At a minimum, the content of your essay should include the following:
- definition of natural selection
- conditions required for natural selection to occur
- comparison/contrast of natural selection with ALL other mechanisms of evolution (showing specific understanding of each mechanism)
- at least two specific real or hypothetical examples of natural selection
- at least two common misconceptions about natural selection and why each is incorrect
- the role of natural selection in speciation and reinforcement
Essay Format
- Length should be approximately 1-3 typed pages
- Essay must be in complete sentences and paragraphs (bullet points or lists are not acceptable; walls of text not broken up into paragraphs are also not acceptable).
- Number of paragraphs may vary
ALL SOURCES MUST BE CITED
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: NATURAL SELECTION
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Natural Selection
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NATURAL SELECTION
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Natural Selection
Alfred Wallace and Sir Charles Darwin are the discoverers of the natural selection,
although the principal theorist is Darwin. Natural selection has been defined as the process
resultant to the adaptation of an organism to its environment. This happens by means of selective
reproduction that changes in its genetic constitution or genotype.
QN 1: For natural selection to occur, the following conditions have to be there. One,
Reproduction. This is the process in which an offspring is produced by the parent. A necessary
evolution condition is that a parent plant yields more descendants than can survive. Two,
heredity. This is the spread mechanism of certain specific characters from parent to the
descendants. A necessary condition for evolution is the traits of the fittest phenotypes (where the
phenotype is physical properties that are observable.) that survive to get to be inherited by the
progeny (where progeny is ...