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One of Darwin’s key ideas is that natural selection gives animals an inborn tendency to behave in ways that do what?

Correct answer C. Help them to survive and reproduce

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Natural selection favours traits that increase survival and reproductive success. Over generations, behaviours that help animals survive and reproduce become innate tendencies in the species.

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