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BIOLOGY
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To determine: The requirements that evolve by natural selection for the behavior.

Introduction: Natural selection is the mechanism of evolution in which organisms able to survive and reproduce to transmit the genetic traits over generations. The behaviors of the organisms are also included under the natural selection theory such as wiggle dance of worker bees after searching for food.

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