All of the following are examples of cultural practices acting as an agent for biological selection except:

a. people diagnosed with diabetes taking a medicine prescribed by physicians become as biologically fit as anyone else
b. people of low financial status who are unable to purchase medication prescribed by physicians affecting biological fitness
c. an inherited trait that affects biological fitness
d. greater lactose tolerance in populations contributing significantly to diet


c

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