Read the following statements and choose the following option: 1. The fitness, according to Darwin, does not refer to reproductive fitness 2. Those who are better fit in an environment, leave more progeny than others 3. All the existing life forms share similarities and share common ancestors. 4. These ancestors were present at different periods in the history of earth (epochs, periods and eras). 5. The geological hi

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The fitness, according to Darwin, refers ultimately and only to reproductive fitness. Hence, those who are better fit in an environment, leave more progeny than others. These, therefore, will survive more and hence are selected by nature. He called it natural selection and implied it as a mechanism of evolution. Let us also remember that Alfred Wallace, a naturalist who worked in Malay Archipelago had also come to similar conclusions around the same time. In due course of time, apparently new types of organisms are