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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 In Darwinian evolution, what accounts for new physical characteristics in an organism?

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 This man observed that organisms are continually adapting, but was wrong on the mechanism by which evolution operated.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Kettlewell’s experiments aimed to demonstrate natural selection by examining what organism?

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 This aspect of the skull can indicate whether or not an animal was bipedal.

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$400 Stand up and walk like an ape.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Many anthropologists place the robust australopithecines in a different genus. What is that genus?

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $100 Cranial Capacity (33% larger in Homo) Home

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $300 Home H. neandertalensis H. heidelbergensis H. erectus H. neandertalensis H. heidelbergensis H. erectus

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 According to the multiregional theory, this hominid became modern Europeans.

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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Ardi’s small canine teeth indicate what?

© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $500 Males didn’t fight for females— they provided for them. Home