Biology
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Author: Audesirk, Teresa, Gerald, Byers, Bruce E.
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Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Natural selection changes the genetic makeup of a population by favoring the alleles that contribute to the reproductive success and selecting against those that do not. Natural selection does not eliminate alleles directly.
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