Natural selection is defined as the process in which organisms evolve for enhanced adaptations to survive within their environment, a concept of evolution. Natural selection does not attempt to answer how life begins, but how life’s physical characteristics changes through time. The key characteristic, pointed out by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin, natural selection essentially defines itself by is genetic variation, a key mechanism to evolution. The theory of natural selection is famously known by naturalist Charles Darwin, supported by the forgotten scientist Lamarck, who introduces five main points to natural selection. The five main points are overproduction, competition, adaptation, reproduction and variation. Charles Darwin main point to natural selection is that only the fittest will survive, and if the fittest organisms meet the five points, they have reached their climax. …show more content…
Within the group of offspring, those offspring must have genetic variations to enhance adaptations; and within their genetic variation, the offspring must inherit some characteristics from their parents. Organisms with the best possible combination of genetic material have the more probably chance to winning competition for resources and survival, as well as passing down DNA. This is how species evolved. As their environment change, so do they. If the species doesn’t evolve, they have a higher chance of being prey to predators. Natural selection affects individuals by forcing the species to interact and reproduce. If the individuals fails to meet one of the points Darwin outlined, then their genetic code have died within that line, however that doesn’t mean that its population has deteriorated; it just means that the unique genetic code acquired by the failed individuals are no longer