Describe the process of evolution in your own words. In your answer, please include what biological forces contribute to evolutionary change and which specifically produce new variation/distribute existing variation in a population, what behavioral forces (human choices or the "non-random" aspects of evolution) contribute to evolutionary change, and how do we know evolution is occurring.
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This change occurs due to various biological and behavioral forces. Biological forces that contribute to evolutionary change include mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection. Mutation is the process by which new genetic variations are created. Show more…
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