A population's environment sometimes changes too quickly for natural selection to adapt the individuals in the population to the environment. In these situations:
a) the rate of somatic mutations increases.
b) the individuals' instincts can no longer be trusted to elicit behavior that maximizes reproductive success.
c) evolution ceases to operate in the population.
d) mutation occurs so that extinction will not occur.
e) disruptive selection will occur.
Ans: b) the individuals' instincts can no longer be trusted to elicit behavior that maximizes reproductive success.
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