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How do humans impact natural selection?


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Human's impact on natural selection: -

  1. The process through which populations of living things adapt and evolve is known as natural selection. A population's members are naturally varied, which means that they are all distinctive in some respects. This variety indicates that some people have characteristics that are more environment-appropriate than others.
  2. Humans have a tendency to influence biological organisms' natural selection processes.
  3. The development of giraffes' long necks is a great illustration of natural selection at the action. Animals with necks of average length, like deer or antelope, were the progenitors of current giraffes.
  4. Mounting evidence showcases that activities like commercial fishing, angling, and hunting, as well as pesticides and antibiotics, are causing major evolutionary changes.
  5. Overuse of pesticides, for example, may kill most pests, but those that survive become more pesticide-resistant.

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