According to the theory of plate tectonics, the movement of continents embedded in underlying plates on the Earth's surface have moved in relation to one another over the history of life on Earth. This is called:
a. the molecular clock.
b. continental drift.
c. tectonic shifting.
d. the geologic scale.
e. the big bang theory.
b
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a. human evolution b. human skeletal material c. skeletal remains at crime scenes d. disease in earlier human groups e. living nonhuman primates
Which is true about the "Denisovans"?
a. They were from Central Europe. b. They may be a different branch of recent human evolution. c. They are the predecessors of Neandertals. d. They are closely related to all H. sapiens. e. They share about 4-5% of genes with Europeans.