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Define biological evolution in your own words.

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Biological evolution is the gradual change in the heritable characteristics of populations over successive generations. In other words, the frequencies of genes or traits in a population shift over time because of processes such as mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, gene flow, and recombination. These changes, acting across many generations, produce adaptation, new varieties, and ultimately the diversity of life, all through descent with modification rather than individual organisms changing during their lifetimes.