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Evolution Is a Theory Like a Ladder of Progress Life Changed by 'Chance' Organisms 'Try' to Adapt Natural Selection Gives Organisms What They 'Need'

Misconception: “Natural selection involves organisms ‘trying’ to adapt.”
Response: Natural selection leads to adaptation, but the process doesn’t involve “trying.” Natural selection involves genetic variation and selection among variants present in a population. Either an individual has genes that are good enough to survive and reproduce, or it does not—but it can’t get the right genes by “trying.”

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