Multiple Choice
Why did Darwin's contemporaries believe that natural selection could not move a population beyond its initial range of variation?
A) Because selection cannot permanently change a population
B) Because selection does not produce new variants
C) Because selection can only act to stabilize variants
D) Because small increments of change are highly advantageous and cannot be bred out through blending
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