The second statement: 'A mouse loses its tail in a fight. Its offspring will not have tails' best describes <span>Lamarck’s ideas on evolution. Lamarck believed that traits developed during an individuals lifetime would be passed on to the individuals offspring. This is on contrast to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection: Individuals with a competitive edge within a population are more likely to survive and reproduce, thereby passing their genes explaining that particular phenotype to the next generation. </span>
The proportion of mottled fish will
increase over time because of the construction company that dumps a load of
gravel in the bottom of the lake which give it a mottled appearance that made
the mottled fish invisible by their major predator which is the wading bird that hunts them
by sight.
