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Which of the following are an example of a trade-off in human evolution (more than one answer could be correct)?

Increased cognitive ability due to increased brain size

Increased exposure to UV radiation due to loss of body hair

Increased lifespan due to modern medicine

More efficient blood circulation due to development of a four-chambered heart

Increased body fat accumulation due to sedentary lifestyle

What did Wallace discover about the distribution of mammals in the Malay Archipelago that supported his theory of evolution?

The eastern islands had mammals with pouches, while the western islands had placental mammals.

Monkeys and orangutans lived on the same islands.

There were no mammals at all on the eastern islands.

The western islands had no mammals, only birds and reptiles.

What is the first step in the scientific method?

Hypothesis

Test

Prediction

Conclusion

Observation

El convenio de Kioto ha incidido en los procedimientos y regímenes aduaneros

True

False

according to the "Deep tree" in the Nova Evolution Lab, how many million years ago humans and chimpanzees shared the last common ancestor?

Darwin and Wallace both gathered a large number of observations and facts on which they based their theories. Which of the following types of evidence was NOT part of the evidence they gathered?

fossil evidence

anatomical evidence

geographical distribution

genetic evidence

What is the main reason why many diseases are more common today compared to our evolutionary history?

Increased exposure to pollution

Sedentary lifestyles

Faster evolution of pathogens

Mismatch between current environments and those our ancestors evolved in

Observations of the natural world independently led Wallace and Darwin to the same conclusions. But who should get credit for the idea?

both of them

neither of them

Wallace

Darwin

El DR-CAFTA es el TLC de mayor relevancia del comercio exterior dominicano

True

False