What is natural selection? Explain and mention how it works, include two examples.
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It is the mechanism by which species adapt to their environment over time, leading to the development of new species and the extinction of others. The concept of natural selection was first proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-19th Show more…
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