All of the following are examples of natural selection EXCEPT
A. the 150 breeds of dogs developed from ancestral wolves.
B. the distribution of dark and light colored peppered moths in Britain.
C. a rise in bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
D. the reduction in beak length of scarlet honeycreepers when they changed food sources.
E. two of these are not examples of natural selection.
Answer: A
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