According to the theory of natural selection, what is likely to happen to a population of birds after the seeds they normally eat are no longer available and all
that is left are seeds that are harder to crack open?
- The individual birds that already have the kind of beak that allows them to eat the seeds that are harder to crack open would be more likely to survive and
reproduce.
- All of the individual birds would develop new beaks as they continued to attempt to eat the seeds that are harder to crack open. All of the birds would
survive and reproduce.
- Some of the individual birds would try to develop new beaks so that they could eat the seeds that are harder to crack open. Those birds would be more
likely to survive and reproduce, and the other birds would likely die.
- Because the population of birds is all of the same species, they all have the same physical traits. No individual bird would have an advantage in cracking
open the seeds, and all of the birds would die.