Charles Darwin · Science

The Engine of Natural Selection

The simple, ruthless mechanism by which life designs itself - variation, inheritance and the struggle to survive - with no designer at all.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that natural selection needs three things to work. Name them, and explain how together they produce adaptation, in your own words.

Leads to Gregor Mendel.

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