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In male-male combat observed in marine iguanas, why do males tend to grow to sizes that exceed the o
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Stephen J. Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed that most morphological change happens at speciation ev
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Genes that are duplicated within a genome and later diverge in function, such as the RNASE1 and RNAS
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A preexisting, ancestral character is also known as a(n) ________.
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Social, political, and legal controversy surrounding acceptance of evolution goes back to the decade
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HIV-1 Group M is responsible for 95% of human infections. When is it estimated that HIV-1 Group M wa
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Although most of the mechanisms of evolution are nonrandom, the one that is absolutely random is ___
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Social behavior in which the "actor" makes a sacrifice for the benefit of the "recipient" is called
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The comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier confirmed the concept of extinction in 1812 when he demonst
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Chimpanzees and gorillas share the trait of knuckle-walking, which humans do not generally have. Why
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An analysis showing the heterozygote superiority of the ΔF508 allele of CFTR demonstrates increased
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The model of life's origins, which posits that all of the necessary ingredients for the origin of li
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First, briefly describe the relationship between mutation rate and genome size for viruses and proka
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The fact that blind luck (more technically known as sampling error) can account for changes in allel
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An unusually dangerous strain of flu that infects humans was reported from China in the spring of 20
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What is the molecular mechanism by which reverse transcriptase inhibitors, such as AZT, prevent vira
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Organisms with more than two chromosome sets are said to be ________.
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A(n) ________ [two words] is a novel feature that evolved in a lineage and may be unique to a specie
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Explain the significance of Archaeopteryx as a transitional fossil in our understanding of phylogene
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Which genus or genera of hominin is/are most consistently associated with stone tools?
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