The rapid expansion of placental mammals after the Mesozoic major extinction event is a good example of

a. parallel evolution.
b. specialization.
c. homology.
d. adaptive radiation.
e. devolution.


d

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The person responsible for popularizing eugenics among nineteenth-century Europeans was

a. Charles Darwin. b. Georges Cuvier. c. Charles Lyell. d. Francis Galton. e. Thomas Jefferson.

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Why was the "one-drop rule" of racial categorization never used to classify Native Americans?

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The primary artistic efforts of Maria Martinez were:

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