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A Step by step tutorial of Darwinian principles of Natural Selection that link the direct relation to Evolution. This site offers complete explanations of Darwin's five tenets of Natural Selection which will help prime students to understand Natural Selection leading to Evolution. Then to cement the students' grasp of this phenomenon, the tutorial uses a wonderful simulation of a fictional population. This simulation using a graph and ingenious graph/active setup, displays how despite the complete randomness of mutation, the struggle to survive leads to the evolution of adaptive phenotypes.

Disciplines:

• Science and Technology  / Biology  / Evolutionary Biology