His team has made it possible to catalog variation
among individual organisms in a way that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.
Darwin's theory of natural selection identifies in a qualitative way the cause of evolutionary change: natural selection operating through a struggle
among individual organisms for reproductive success.
Not exact matches
However, sensitivity to toxic substances is known to vary significantly even
among closely related coprophilous
organisms, which begs the question as to how representative the reaction of any
individual animal species actually is in such laboratory tests.
These unprepossessing trees are
among the longest - lived
organisms on the planet; some
individual trees are effectively as old as human civilization.