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How does pollution affect evolution?​

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Pollution may act as a selective pressure for speciation

Step-by-step explanation:

It can cause genetic drift of alleles by killing a large number of individual in a population.In microbes remember Ame's test where pollution [ carcinogens ] can increase mutation rate many fold. All these are process of evolution.

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