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Differential
reproduction
is a crucial component of
Charles Darwin
's theory of
natural selection
. It states that individuals within a species compete with each other for
mate
s, and those that are best equipped to succeed in this struggle will produce the most
offspring
. More generally, those individuals who are best equipped to
survive
the longest will produce more offspring than individuals who have shorter lifespans. And while Darwin was very hazy on his understanding of
heredity
(so was everyone else at the time besides for
Gregor Mendel
), he did recognize that individuals tend to resemble their parents. In this way,
evolution
occurs when the fittest individuals produce the most offspring- and over time the most descendants- and the least fit individual produce the fewest. Eventually, most or all of a
population
comes to resemble its fittest members.
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