Question

Why was natural selection an important contribution to the theory of evolution?
It proved that evolution is true.
It explained how evolution works.
It summarized the process of evolution.
It highlighted the main points of evolution.

Answer 1

Natural selection is the process by which species adapt to their environment. Natural selection leads to evolutionary change when individuals with certain characteristics have a greater survival or reproductive rate than other individuals in a population and pass on these inheritable genetic characteristics to their offspring. Simply put, natural selection is a consistent difference in survival and reproduction between different genotypes, or even different genes, in what we could call reproductive success. [A genotype is a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic makeup.]

The reason that natural selection is important is that it’s the central idea, stemming from Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, that explains design in nature. It is the one process that is responsible for the evolution of adaptations of organisms to their environment.

Answer 2

thus the answer is........?

Answer 3

clue: the answer has the word evolution in it. :)