Natural Selection is the process by which individuals better suited for survival tend to produce more offspring and over time th
e population changes to reflect their characteristics.This process can be summarized in 4 steps: 1) ____________ usually results with more offspring being produced that can survive 2) _________exists within any population 3) With limited resources, only individuals with favorable traits are ___________ to survive 4) Over time ,the differential reproductive success results in a population that has _______
The mechanism that Darwin proposed for evolution is natural selection. Because resources are limited in nature, organisms with heritable traits that favor survival and reproduction will tend to leave more offspring than their peers, causing the traits to increase in frequency over generations.