Modeling in Biology

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Natural selection iS oflen Viewed aS a process Of fitness maximization – a view in which natural selection invariably maximizes the
mean fitness Of a population. In light Of the population genetics models Of natural selection that we examined during weeks 9 and
10, aS well aS the frequency-dependent model presented above, critically evaluate the view that natural selection iS a fitness
maximizing process- YOU may diSCUSS evolutionary Or genetic scenarios from lectures Or elsewhere in which natural selection
maximizes mean fitness, and scenarios in which it does not-