Exogamy is adaptive because it
A. was an important causal factor in the origin of the state.
B. impedes peaceful relations among social groups and therefore promotes population expansion.
C. increases the likelihood that disadvantageous alleles will find phenotypic expression and eliminate them from the population.
D. reduces the gene pool of a community.
E. increases the number of individuals that one can rely upon in times of need.
Answer: E
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a. part of both a matrilineage and a patrilineage. b. free to choose to which group they will belong. c. able to choose whether to belong to the matrilineage on their father's or on their mother's side of the family. d. able to choose whether to belong to the patrilineage on their father's or on their mother's side of the family. e. trace their ancestry from a public and private source.
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