New species develop naturally through the process of natural selection . Due to natural selection, organisms with traits that better enable them to adapt to their environment will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers. Natural selection causes beneficial heritable traits to become more common in a population and unfavorable heritable traits to become less common. For example, a giraffe’s neck is beneficial because it allows the giraffe to reach leaves high in trees. Natural selection caused this beneficial trait to become more common than short necks.
A large group of bears lives in a forest. Over time the climate of the forest changes and becomes very cold. Some of the bears have thicker fur while some of the others have thinner fur. Due to the cold weather the bears with thinner fur die earlier. Also the bears with thicker fur have an easier time finding mates. Because of this the bears with thick fur have their traits passed on more often and bears with thin fur appear less and less in the population
Based on the above, answer the following question:
Will a forest where all of the bears have thick fur be in a warm climate or a cold climate?