A new mutation is most likely to be:

A. deleterious
B. neutral
C. beneficial
D. all of these


A. deleterious

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1. At about the time of the birth of Christ, the Greek theatre entered its Hellenistic period. 2.From the fifth to the fourth century BCE, Greek comic costumes moved in the direction of greater realism. 3. From the fifth to the fourth century BCE, the cultural center of Greece moved from Athens toward Alexandria.

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Cognatic descent is especially common among which people groups?

a. Contemporary Western European countries b. The indigenous peoples of the American Southwest c. Polynesians and the Maori of New Zealand d. East Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans

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The robustness of the paranthropoids is most notable in the __________.

A) skull and jaw B) brain size C) upper body D) lower limbs

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_________ and _________ have allowed us to adapt beyond our biological limits

a. climatic change, extinction of species b. hunting, agriculture c. pollution, habitat loss d. ozone, methane gas e. culture, technology

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