The process by which natural variation among organisms that make them best adapted to their environment live and reproduce, therefore passing on to their offspring the genetic qualities best suited to that environment variation
variation

adaptation
adaptation

natural selection
natural selection

Evolution

Which of the following is one of the four conditions necessary for natural selection to occur in a population? fewer organisms are born than the habitat can support mutation does not occur organisms have identical characteristics variation is inherited

Consider darwin's first writings on the theory of natural selection. an important point of darwin's essay on the principle of population, written in 1798, was a peer's observation that in nature plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive, this observation can be attributed to a) charles lyell. b) thomas malthus. c) jean-baptiste lamarck. d) johann friedrich meckel.

Wich organism obtains its energy from dead or decaying matter