What does “adaptation” of populations have to do with the “fitness” of individual organisms in the population?

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docker41 [41]2 years ago

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Answer:

As organisms adapt to changing conditions, they evolve in a way to fit their surrounding environment. According to Darwin's <em>survival of the fittest</em> concept, organisms that can adapt to fluctuating conditions are more fitter and hence selected by nature.

Here fitter means reproductive superiority.

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