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Natural Selection Bird Simulation Lab by Hammad Tauqeer is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Bird populations on an island were observed over 500,000 years of evolution in a simulation. Bird 1 received no mutations and its population increased by 12. Bird 2 received 5 mutations but none significantly increased its fitness. Bird 3 received 4 mutations - smaller body size and shorter, straighter beak - which increased its fitness and caused its population to rise to 976. When the birds were blown to new environments after the simulation, the group predicted Bird 3 would be most fit in an area with pl

Author
Hammad Tauqeer
Language
EN