SUBJECT IS ECOLOGY
Does physical fitness correspond to evolutionary fitness?
Consider both humans and other animals – for each, list several benefits and costs of achieving / possessing/ maintaining physical fitness on an organism’s evolutionary fitness.
No.
Fitness in general terms refers to strength or endurance.
Fitness in evolutionary biology refers to the reproductive success
of an organism and how effectively an organism is adapted to the
prevailing environment.
For humans, achieving physical fitness requires time and energy.
It is also subjected to genetic predisposition. A physically fit
person can live a healthy life for a longer duration provided all
the remaining conditions are normal.
The costs being time and energy input.
For animals also physical fitness provides a greater advantage as most of the animals are hunter-gatherers.
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