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Evolutionary Biology (DARWINISM) with John McCormack

Ologies with Alie Ward

Evolutionary Mechanism - Differential Survival and Reproduction

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A lot of the examples of evolution you see written about in the popular press kind of fall into this trap of portraying evolution as though it responds to needs. The recent example was am birds that have evolved to m to feed off of bird feeders in great britain. Differential survival and reproduction just being fancy talk for little variances in gens mean good mutations which help a plant or a bird or a snail thrive and mate in its particular environment. Boom. Natr selection.

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