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When individuals of any species find themselves in an enviorment that differs from the environment to which they are evolutionarily adapted, we observe that: a) They engage in behaviors better fit to the environment the species evolved in than the enviornment the individual organisms find themselves in. b) they engage in behaviors better fit to the environment the species find themselves in than the environment they evolved in. the correct answer is a) but why b is incorrect? When individuals of any species find themselves in an enviorment that differs from the environment to which they are evolutionarily adapted, we observe that: a) They engage in behaviors better fit to the environment the species evolved in than the enviornment the individual organisms find themselves in. b) they engage in behaviors better fit to the environment the species find themselves in than the environment they evolved in. the correct answer is a) but why b is incorrect? When individuals of any species find themselves in an enviorment that differs from the environment to which they are evolutionarily adapted, we observe that: a) They engage in behaviors better fit to the environment the species evolved in than the enviornment the individual organisms find themselves in. b) they engage in behaviors better fit to the environment the species find themselves in than the environment they evolved in. the correct answer is a) but why b is incorrect?

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Natural selection has no foresight or intentions. In general, natural selection simply selects among individuals in a population, favoring traits that enable individuals to survive and reproduce, yielding more copies of those individuals' genes in the next generation. Theoretically, in fact, a trait that is advantageous to the individual (e.g., being an efficient predator) could become more and more frequent and wind up driving the whole population to extinction (e.g., if the efficient predation actually wiped out the entire prey population, leaving the predators without a food source).

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