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Name the mechanism of evolution that must have operated so that population-two evolved from population-one.
Name the mechanism of evolution that must have operated so that population-two evolved from population-one.
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Natural selection drives evolutionary changes by favoring advantageous traits in a given environment.
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The mechanism is Natural Selection. Over time, brown snakes, being better camouflaged in the desert, had a survival advantage over grey snakes.
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