Darwin's breeding of pigeons
A) showed that breeding can produce a great deal of variation in traits.
B) provided him with a mechanism of heredity.
C) provided insight on the rate of new mutations.
D) showed that most populations have little genetic variability.
E) led him to conclude that individuals evolve.

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Darwin's breeding of pigeons demonstrated that selective breeding can produce a wide range of variation in traits, indicating that natural selection acting on variations in a population can drive evolution.

Darwin's Breeding of Pigeons