The development of similar cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by people whose ancestral cultures were already rather alike is called:

a. convergent evolution.
b. parallel evolution.
c. constant evolution.
d. adaptation.
e. diffusion.


b

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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What will be an ideal response?

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a. ethnobotany b. ethnobiology c. polygenism d. anthropometry

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