EXPLAIN PLEASE The male pom-pom monkey of the island of Hoi Polloi has evolved to have long bright puffs of turquoise fur all ar
ound his neck. The female pom-pom monkey has no pom-poms and, in fact, no turquoise fur at all. Using the pom-pom monkeys as your example, describe how natural selection has affected the male pop-pom monkey population over thousands of generations.
Through natural selection, organisms carrying better traits to survive in an ecosystem are able to survive and pass on their characteristics to their offspring. Through evolution, the allelic frequency of the population changes in abundance of the traits which are favoured by natural selection. As the male pom-pom monkeys carrying long bright puffs of turquoise fur all around his neck had a better adaptation to survive on the island hence, they were favoured by natural selection and through evolution all long bright puffs of turquoise fur all around his neck evolved.
