2. "Natural selection is usually thought of as an agent of change in populations, but it can also act to maintain the status quo." In a short, written response, analyze and evaluate this statement. Include the range of responses of a population to changes in the environment, such as differential reproductive success, the adaptation and development of diversity in and among species, and the change in populations.

Those organisms survive and maintain its population who are chosen by natural selection.

Explanation:

This statement means that when the population experiences a new set of environmental conditions, two things are happened i. e. the population either adjusts through natural selection or becomes extinct. The fossil of dinosaur indicates that extinction occur due to changed in the environment. If the population made changes in itself and adapt the environment then the organism survive otherwise extinction occur.