Given that humans shifted from hunter-gathers to an agriculturally based society within the last 10,000 years does NOT mean that ________
A) we cannot expect evolution by natural selection in human populations to have kept pace with our changing way of life
B) humans still retain many, if not most, of the features that made us well adapted to living in the hunter-gatherer societies of the stone age
C) we can use knowledge of the differences between our current lifestyle and the lifestyle of our pre-agricultural lifestyle to better understand both the peculiarities of humans and risks associated with our modern lifestyle
D) humans are unique in that we have the capacity evolve by natural selection much more rapidly in response to changes in our environment than other organisms do
D
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A) anterior-posterior axis B) anterior-lateral axis C) posterior-dorsal axis D) posterior-ventral axis
Which statement about the geologic time scale is
incorrect? a. Mammals originated early in the Mesozoic era. b. Adaptive radiation of flowering plants, insects, and birds took place during the Mesozoic era. c. Mass extinction of the dinosaurs occurred about 65 million years ago. d. Reptiles originated during the Paleozoic era. e. Eukaryotes originated during the Proterozoic eon.
How do glomeromycetes differ from basidiomycetes?
What will be an ideal response?
Bootstrap resampling:
a. can be used with any technique for phylogenetic inference. b. can only be used with the model-based frameworks of maximum likelihood or Bayesian inference. c. does not yield statistical significance levels. d. can determine how strongly our character data support a given feature of a phylogenetic tree. e. A and C.