Q. Fitness according to Darwin refers to

A) Reproductive fitness
B) Physiological fitness
C) Spiritual fitness
D) None of the above
Explanation

The fitness, according to Darwin, refers ultimately and only to reproductive fitness. Hence, those who are better fit in an environment, leave more progeny than other. These, therefore will survive more and, hence are selected by nature. He called it natural selectional and implied it as a mechanism of evolutions

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