Read the excerpt below and answer the question. from the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form. (the origin of species) based on the context clues, the denotation of propagate in this passage is compete with other individuals for a mate copy from another individual the same age modify to adapt to environmental change reproduce in the next generation

Atahualpaemperor of the inca empire who rose to the throne after winning a civil war between him and his brother.  -he refused to become a spanish vassal or christian.-francisco pizarro kidnapped him and demanded a huge ransom.  -pizarro's secretary described him as "a man of thirty years, good-looking and poised, somewhat stout, with a wide, handsome, and ferocious face, and the eyes flaming with blood."-after the ransom was paid, atahualpa was killed by pizarro