The Darwinian fitness can be estimated by

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The Darwinian fitness can be estimated by (A) documenting how long different individuals in a population survive (B) counting the number of offsprings produced by different individuals in a population (C) determining which individuals have large size in a population (D) determining which phenotype is the most common one in a given population

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Darwinian fitness can be estimated by the number of offspring produced by different individuals in a population. The organisms which bear favourable variations in accordance to the environment have more offspring than the others which do not have variations in accordance with environment.

Q. The Darwinian fitness can be estimated by

documenting how long different individuals in a population survive

counting the number of offsprings produced by different individuals in a population

determining which individuals have large size in a population

determining which phenotype is the most common one in a given population

Darwinian fitness can be estimated by the number of offspring produced by different individuals in a population. The organisms which bear favourable variations in accordance to the environment have more offspring than the others which do not have variations in accordance with environment.