Below is a list of possible challenges. Check all

errors that you mentioned in your answer.

Traits other than beak type might affect

natural selection.

It could take many generations to observe

adaptions to a population.

The environment may be complex and hard

to study

Changes in the environment may occur faster

or slower than changes to the birds

The birds may be interdependent with other

organisms that may change, too.

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Biology

Amara Fuller

3 October, 06:58

Below is a list of possible challenges. Check all

errors that you mentioned in your answer.

Traits other than beak type might affect

natural selection.

It could take many generations to observe

adaptions to a population.

The environment may be complex and hard

to study

Changes in the environment may occur faster

or slower than changes to the birds

The birds may be interdependent with other

organisms that may change, too.

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Abel Bates · Answer 1

It is true that studying natural selection in the fields can be challenging. Some of the challenges which Darwin might have faced could have been:

Darwin was only studying one trait for his results. But there might have been many other factors or traits affecting natural selection.

Natural selection does not happen rapidly hence Darwin would have had to wait for many generations to observe the results.

The environment is not such an easy factor to study. It is complex. It might have happened that the environment might have changed before any changes were seen in the population of the birds.