Evolution and Natural Selection
Essay 1 (due 1/21): What is natural selection? How does natural selection relate to evolution? Does natural selection act on the individual or the population? Explain your answer and include an example that clearly demonstrates your understanding of the process of natural selection.
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Essay 2 (due 1/23): Explain the difference between artifical and natural selection. Then pick an example provided by a classmate (first posting, described above). Briefly summarize the example. Is this an example of natural selection? Explain. Include a discussion of what was the selective agent.