The phenomenon whereby mammalian forms evolve miniature body size as the result of living on islands is referred to as:

A. social Darwinism
B. balanced polymorphism
C. phyletic gradualism
D. insular dwarfism


D. insular dwarfism

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Timothy Wright, in his study of Bolivian men found that:

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