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    Natural Selection Paper Natural selection is considered one of the most important processes for a variety of species and the environment which allows the fittest organisms to produce offspring. To prevent a species from extinction, it is necessary for them to adapt to the surrounding environment. The species which have the ability to adapt to new surroundings will be able to pass their genes through reproduction. Within the process of natural selection, it is possible for the original genetic make-up

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    most important books called “ On the Origin of Species by Mean of Natural Selection”. Back in Darwin’s time in the 19th century historians were being to think of evolutionary change as an explanation for patterns observed in the future. He did not invent this idea however he carried out the necessary research to document the idea. He made this book to make two valid points, “descent and modification” and “process natural selection”. Descent and modification described the evidence and support that

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    Natural selection, a term often used in relation with the concept of evolution. Being as such, ones’ perspective is often led to take sides on a matter that they know little about. One side states that such a concept is full of lies and seeks to throw you from the path of belief. The other says that it proves that man came from a simpler being and that the supernatural is non-existent. Being someone of Christian faith, I was led down the path of the former. It is in my nature, however, to not blindly

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    In this lab, we were given the task of modeling the process of natural selection. Natural selection is when an environment poses obstacles and chooses to favor a certain trait over another. We created fake paper “birds” for this model, with straws and construction paper. This lab showed was both accurate and helpful and not so accurate. One way this lab was accurate, was the correct showing of mutations and random changes over generations in the birds. We rolled the dice and flipped a coin to figure

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    . In my own words when I think of natural selection I think that it means that the fittest survive. Also that when the fitness survive they are automatically given the opportunity to keep their genes going. This process of the weak dying off and the strong moving on is what makes everything living thing evolve into the best. The next force of evolution is genetic drift I think that this means that just sheer chance the weak genes actually move on and some strong genes do not move on. The third force

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    and death? A few questions to jolt your brain for a complex question: What truly rules the world, adaptations and improvements endowed by natural selection or the characteristics filtered by human creation? Natural selection involves instincts, morphology and an organism’s preferred niche. No one controls the process. No one can disrupt the flow with any natural methods. When something happens (i.e climate change, diseases, etc.) that limits the survival and reproductivity rate of a species, nature

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    If natural selection is to result in the evolution of traits associated with adaptation within a given plant population certain conditions such as sexual reproduction, mutations, and gene flow, all of which facilitate genetic variation, must exist. While plants can reproduce asexually, those that reproduce sexually produce new alleles through genetic recombination. This allows for the emergence of new phenotypes, and subsequently new individuals, that are better suited for their environment. Likewise

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    Darwin’s theory is in regards to natural selection and sexual selection. The gorilla is an animal that uses the two selections to determine their protection, feeding, and reproduction. First Charles Darwin described the characteristics and structures that a animal like a gorilla is born with. He states that these characters and structures will have slow changes that will be different than when they were born. Then he believes that they will have characters and structures that are trifling important

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    physical document, and doing homework online is now the norm. People have adapted to the new age, and those who have not adapted are being left behind--this is where the theory of natural selection meets modern cognitive science. Steven Pinker, the author of How The Mind Works, argues that the concept of natural selection is not as linear as society may think it is with today’s information. There is more to evolution than straightforward “survival of the fittest”. Using his background knowledge in

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    Natural Selection Theory

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    animals were somehow related. He supported this belief with the idea that there were transitional species that existed as different animals evolved. His specific theory was that evolution occurred by means of a mechanism called natural selection. The idea of natural selection was essentially that some traits were more

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