Natural Selection Essay

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Natural selection is the gradual process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment. It is a key mechanism of evolution.
This simply means the stronger traits will pass on and the week ones will not. A person who took this theory to heart and proved it was Charles Darwin . Charles Darwin gained many facts to support this. One of the problems he faced was proving natural selection in a short period of time. He wanted an example that could be seen in real time. Charles Darwin did not know it but natural selection was happening in England.one of the pig example in England was the peppered moth.
When the industrial revolution began in the 18th century tons and tons of soot was deposited around industrial areas. The soot would then turn the rocks and trees and other objects that were lighter colors to a dark color. Be for the revolution the mouth was a much lighter color and blended in with every thin that was light. When the soot began to fall it made the moths easy to see.
Do to the moths being easy to see the birds and other organism that ate them found them with little effort. Soon the dark moths were the only ones able to pass on there traits. This then caused the number of dark peppered moths to rise wile the lighter colors when down in numbers(biology corner .com)

Other examples of natural selection exist in places like Nebraska's Sand Hills. Nebraska is home to a deer mouse that can evolve very fast. Most deer mice are a darker tan color. The deer mouse is a dark color because of were it lives In the woods. The dark color trait would pace on in the woods. Th...

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... happened these caused hominids to get smarter and then evolve to use tools, start fires, hunt, and trap, grow crops, and build houses. This goes back to Darwin’s theory of natural selection. If they did not evolve to survive the cold then the may have died before being able to pass of there geans and then the species would die out.
Some people believe that the bible disproves evolution because it simply says god has created every thing the way that it is, and that it has always been that way I am not going to state the bible as being wrong because I do believe in god but I also believe in evolution. I do not think that things evolved from bugs but I do believe something divine like god created a species that would evolve from what it was. I do think it is also possible that animals evolve in close to the same was as humans but something divine did not create them

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