A population of beetles in which some individuals are blue and some individuals are green evolves because the green individuals survive better, and so leave more offspring. This mechanism of evolution is known as

A. natural selection.
B. mutation pressure.
C. genetic drift.
D. gene flow.


Answer: A

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