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which best describes the relationship between evolution and natural selection?
natural selection leads to evolution.
evolution leads to natural selection.
natural selection is the same as evolution.
evolution and natural selection are not related.
Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. It is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce more offspring. Over time, this leads to changes in the population (evolution). Evolution is the broader concept of change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Natural selection is one of the main drivers of evolution.
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Natural selection leads to evolution.