Natural Selection Cannot Make an Elephant Run as Fast as a Cheetah

question 54

Multiple Choice

Natural selection cannot make an elephant run as fast as a cheetah and fly like a bird. This is an example of

• A) a correlated response to selection.
• B) disequilibrium.
• C) physical constraints on natural selection.
• D) fixation.

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