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Regarding Natural Selection, what does the term FIT mean?

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The term "fitness" in evolutionary biology means the ability of an organism to pass on its genetic material to its offspring. Biological or "Darwinian" fitness is being able to live long enough to reproduce and keep the population or species alive.

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to an evolutionary biologist fitness simply means reproductive success and reflects how well an organism is adapted to its environment.We call them fit because of how successfull they reproduce not how well they do at athletic events

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