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What is Biodiversity?
adaptation
Humans as Evidence of Successful
Adaptation
Three Major adaptations
Strong opposable
thumbs
Ability to walk upright
Complex brain
These adaptations helped
us develop technologies,
tools, and devices, to help
our survival.
Adaption through Natural Selection
has limits.
Can adaptations to new environmental conditions through
natural selection allow our bodies to adapt to current pollution
problems?
NO, according to scientists in this field.
First, environmental changes can lead to adaptations
only for genetic traits already present in a populations
gene pool or for traits resulting from mutations.
Second, even if a trait is present in populations, the
populations ability to adapt may be limited by its
reproductive capacity.
Species that reproduce quickly adapt in a short time
Species that reproduce slowly adapt in a long time
Three Common Myths about Evolution
through Natural Selection
1. It is Survival of the Fittest not Survival of the
strongest. (reproductive success)