Question

What are the different types of natural selection?
(Explanation, please)

Answer 1

@strawberrysorbet ?

Answer 2

@sweetsunray ?

Answer 3

Not sure whether these are correct, but first there is the selection of pure survival in the environmental conditions (type of trees, climate, water, air, land, underground, air, sulphur). Then there is the selection per escaping the claws or jaws of a predator as well as the selection of reaching food or catching it better than other species... this would be selection through competition for resources. And then there is natural selection through sexual selection: who seems the best partner to make babies with that will have the best chance of survival (caring partner, strong partner, etc). Typical example of natural selection happening through sexual selection is the peawingspan with his grand tail that even endangers the male of being more noticeable to a predator, but the gain of being seen as attractive by the females outweighs the risk of being caught and eaten.

Answer 4

that should be *peawingspan tail span

Answer 5

http://turfgrass.cas.psu.edu/graduate/Agro851/Lesson04/images/L04selectiondiagboxes.jpg

http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/evolution/naturalselection/section1.rhtml

Answer 6

ok it seems that I can't write the name of the bird for automatic censure reasons...

Answer 7

Yup :P

Answer 8

Your link might be the answer as well, but when I think of types of selection I think of
- ecological selection
- competition selection
- sexual selection

These three different types drive evolution of a species the most: it are the factors that determine which type of gene gets to survive and be passed on to the next generation.

Answer 9

Well, both of you have the answer, but @strawberrysorbet gave me the one I was looking for. Thanks to both of you!