# How Natural Selection Works

Explain natural selection as the mechanism of evolution: heritable variation + competition for resources + differential survival and reproduction = change in allele frequency over generations

Builds on: Classifying Organisms (soft, https://ai.page/c/classifying-organisms/en.md), Variation in Species (hard, https://ai.page/c/variation-in-species/en.md), The Red Queen Hypothesis (soft, https://ai.page/c/the-red-queen-hypothesis/en.md), Dinosaur-to-Bird Transition (soft, https://ai.page/c/dinosaur-to-bird-transition/en.md), Genetic Mutation (hard, https://ai.page/c/genetic-mutation/en.md), Sexual Selection (soft, https://ai.page/c/sexual-selection/en.md)

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