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How does natural selection lead to adaptation?

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Natural selection favors the individuals best suited for the current environmental conditions and allows them to thrive and breed increased numbers of offspring containing their genes, so their gene variants become more common from generation to generation. This results, over time, in a population that is well adapted to the population's environment.

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