Which of the following is not a step in the process of natural selection?
A. The population produces more offspring than the environment can support
B. members of a population possess heritable variations
C. Over multiple generations of reproducing, a larger proportion of the population will have those favorable traits and thus adaptation has occurred.
D. Individuals who have favorable traits survive and reproduce more than those individuals lacking such traits.
E. People select which individuals breed and which ones do not.
Ans: E. People select which individuals breed and which ones do not.
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