A young male baboon leaves the troop that he was born in and joins a small neighboring troop of small baboons. He quickly rises to become a dominant male. From an evolutionary point of view, what important process has occurred?

A) The bottleneck effect
B) Natural selection
C) Gene flow
D) Genetic drift
E) Nonrandom mating


C

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