In formulating his theory of natural selection, Darwin did not:
a. appreciate the fact that population size is limited by availability of food.
b. recognize the importance of biological variation within a population.
c. wonder if he had enough supportive data.
d. apply his knowledge of domesticated species to undomesticated ones.
e. claim that favorable variations would tend to be destroyed, unfavorable ones be preserved.
e
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a. True b. False
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