SELECTION

In 1859 Charles Darwin published a

book‘ The Origin of Species by Natural
Selection’. In 1859 Charles Darwin
published ‘The Origin of Species by
Natural Selection’.
As a 22 year old, Darwin joined
the crew of HMS Beagle as a
naturalist
Natural selection

 1. Individuals
within a population
show variation and
they reproduce
many young ones
(i.e. differences
due to their genes)
 Competition and struggle for survival

 2. There is competition
between individuals for food,
mates and other resources.,
and also predation and
disease.
 This keeps the population
sizes constant in spite of
production of many offspring
i.e. there is a ‘struggle for
survival’ and many individuals
die.
Reproduction by better adapted
individuals
 3.Individuals which
are better adapted to
the environment are
more likely to survive,
breed successfully and
produce offspring.
This is termed ‘survival
of the fittest’.
Passing on allele to the next generation

4. These ‘survivors’
will therefore pass on
their genes to their
offspring, resulting in
an improved organism
being evolved
through natural
selection.