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===The "goal" of natural selection===
===The "goal" of natural selection===
Contrary to what some people belief, natural selection does not serve a higher purpose: it is a natural process that does not require guidance to occur.
It only requires variation and the ability to change.
===Perfection===
===Perfection===
Natural selection will over the long term select organisms that are better adapted to the current environment than those that came before them, but these organisms only have to be able to survive long enough to reproduce, to ensure the survival of their species: they do not have to be perfectly adapted to their environment, they only have to be able to survive in it.
Furthermore, an organism may be well adapted to one environment but not be able to survive in another, therefore there is no such thing as a perfect organism.
== References ==
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