Natural Selection will ultimately make a species...?

Question

a. more intelligent

b. physically bigger

c. better adapted to it's envirmonent

d. more agrressive

e. less vulnerable to its predators

Answer 1

The answer is C,  Natural selection is a rather nicer way of saying survival of the fittest.   Each of the other answers could be a response to the limiting conditions of an organisms environment, however the process by which an organism not only responds too but also suceeds against a limiting factor is the process of Natural selection.

Answer 2

e

Answer 3

C.

Answer 4

c. better adapted to its environment

The dinosaurs reigned for about 200 million years with walnuts for brains. Humans reigned for about 5000 years and plenty of folks think that we will only last another hundred or so. Intelligence is no evolutionary advantage.

The single most successful group of organisms is the roundworms.  They are very tiny, often microscopic, and doing great.  If you piled them all in one place and humans in another, the roundworm pile would weigh about ten times more than the human pile, even though they are individually quite small. Size is no evolutionary advantage.

Predators are very aggressive, but are always very close to extinction. Bald eagles will be gone long before crows are.  Aggression is no evolutionary advantage.

A certain level of protection from predators is nice, but the most abundant species often are very poor at hiding or running or fighting back.  Jellyfish, rabbits, pigeons, all are just there for the eating as far as their predators are concerned, and they are all doing great.  Vulnerability to predators is not a big problem as far as evolution is concerned.