Which of These Statements Represents What Darwin Thought of Natural

question 57

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements represents what Darwin thought of natural selection?

• A) He reasoned that if characteristics that better enable organisms to adapt to specific environmental pressures exist, then selective breeding could do the same.
• B) He reasoned that if a person could select different characteristics when breeding organisms, then nature could do so as well.
• C) Humans were selecting the characteristics they wanted in the offspring by choosing parents with those traits.
• D) Humans were selecting the characteristics they wanted in the offspring by eliminating individuals that did not show these characteristics.

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Definitions:

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