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The recent upsurge in migration due to refugees seeking safety from war zones provides biological anthropologists an easy opportunity to observe and document

A) cultural change
B) migration patterns induced by war
C) gene flow
D) phylogenetic changes caused by stress

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Gene flow is the movement of genetic material across different ecosystems.

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The physical characteristics of any organism that can be seen are known as the phenotype.

The genetic dimension of obesity is related to

According to the extended evolutionary synthesis, parents who teach their young a particular behavior that aids in their evolutionary success are practicing __________.

__________ emerges when genetic variation within a group grows so large that its members begin exhibiting important genetic and physical differences.

The core idea of Darwin's and Wallace's ideas-descent with modifications via natural selection-is intimately tied to what larger force?

Based on what you have learned about evolutionary processes in this chapter, how do you think evolutionary processes might shape human behavior and psyche?

Non-random mating among the Hutterite sect in Canada is a good example of how genetic drift works.

One of the central ideas of Darwin's theory of evolution was the idea that

Many people think the word "evolution" implies progress and improvement. Yet the central idea in evolutionary theory is that evolution is non-directional and doesn't necessarily improve a population's prospects over time. Discuss intellectual, religious, and social reasons this gap in understanding persists.

If you wanted to understand the evolutionary dimensions of why human males have population-based differences in facial hair across the world, you might focus on

Variation in genes acts as the sole source for biological change of traits in an organism.

Termites in the wild construct huge "mounds" as a habitat. From the perspective of biocultural evolutionary concepts, termites and their engineering feats are involved in a type of

In terms of the extended evolutionary synthesis, large-scale agriculture, which produces massive amounts of both food and pollution, can be understood as a form of

"Survival of the fittest" is taken to mean competition for __________.

The refinement of Darwin's theory has shown that

The behavioral system of inheritance refers to the patterned behaviors that parents and adults pass onto young members of their group via __________.

Clyde Kluckhohn argued that both biological and cultural aspects of humanity must be seen as a continuum of small changes.