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"Natural selection and speciation leads to evolution." Justify this statement.

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Natural selection is defined as the change in frequency of some genes in a population, which gives survival advantage to a species
Whereas speciation is the development of a new species from pre-existing ones.
This leads to a sequence of gradual change in he primitive organisms over millions of years, to form newer species which are very different from older ones. This is called evolution.
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