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While creation and presence of variation is directionless, natural selection is directional as it is in the context of adaptation. Comment.

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The creation and presence of variation is directionless is regarded that they occur randomly and spontaneously. The variation which are helpful in the adaptions of an organism towards its surroundings would be passed on to next generations.
Natural selection is the most critical evolutionary process, which can be considered directional as it leads to only one path that is slection and perpetuation of better adapted individuals. Natural selectoin leads to survival of the fittest and disappearance of all those organisms which do not all fit in the preveling environmental conditions.
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