After Reading This Chapter, You Should Be Able to Answer These Questions:
What is natural selection, and what is its role in the evolution of populations? |
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What do anthropologists mean by the term fitness? |
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What are the three types of natural selection? |
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What is sexual selection, and what role does it play in evolution? |
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What is kin selection, and what role does it play in evolution? |
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What is a subspecies? How do subspecies evolve into separate species? |
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What are the two ideas about the tempo or rate of evolutionary change? |
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What are the differences between a specialized species and a generalized species? |
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What do we mean by competition, preadaptation, adaptive radiation, and extinction? |