We have learned that reliance on culture has increased in the course of human history. Yet the fact and mechanisms of evolution remain a key part of our human present and future because

A. the pace of evolution has been continuously increasing, as human cultural solutions have not been able to keep up with environmental changes such as global warming.
B. they determine, at the genetic level, our phenotype.
C. they provide the clues to building a better human race by promoting directed speciation.
D. people haven't stopped adapting biologically.
E. they continue to justify anthropology's biocultural perspective.


Answer: D

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