2006-12-03 21:20:30 · 4 answers · asked by alain_akira03 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
survival of the fittest is a bit of a misnomer.
It's really about which individuals within a population of a species are most suited to the environment to enable them to live long enough to reproduce and and/or raise offspring.
A small change in the environment can have a huge effect on a population so as to almost wipe out an entire species and leave only a few who are lucky enough to have a gene or several that gives them a chance in the new circumstance.
This is most easily observed in bacteria, often where human intervention is involved such as disinfectants and anti-biotics producing new strains of bacteria such as MRSA.
2006-12-03 21:56:27 · answer #1 · answered by adam_adams_25 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The principles are
you live
reproduce
your offspring get your genes that makes you a good liver so they are good a living and so on so on
you die
2006-12-03 21:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by Normefoo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the wild the strongest, fastest and most cunning survive.
2006-12-03 21:35:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
WWF is the best to answer this qn.
2006-12-03 21:23:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋