Human Biology (MindTap Course List)
Human Biology (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305112100
Author: Cecie Starr, Beverly McMillan
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To explain: The difference between natural selection and adaptation.

Introduction: Evolution is a process that is governed by natural selection and is defined as the changes that accumulate in a species in the course of time. These changes are inherited by offspring. Adaptation is a mechanism of evolution where organisms change themselves according to the surrounding environment.

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