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Chapter 17, Problem 4CT
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The ways in which the hypothesis saying that some human traits may have arisen by sexual selection can be tested.
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Species of all the organisms have evolved themselves from time to time, according to their needs and changing natural environment around them. Different species adopt different modes of evolution. Natural selection is also one of the evolutionary modes that work on a population with a larger size. Sexual selection is one type of natural selection where individuals of a species prefer to mate with a partner of their desire who has certain special characteristics.
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BIOLOGY:CONCEPTS+APPL.(LOOSELEAF)
Ch. 17 - _________is the original source of new alleles. a....Ch. 17 - Prob. 2SACh. 17 - Match the modes of natural selection with their...Ch. 17 - Prob. 4SACh. 17 - The persistence of the sickle allele at high...Ch. 17 - Prob. 6SACh. 17 - Prob. 7SACh. 17 - Which of the following is not part of how we...Ch. 17 - Prob. 9SACh. 17 - Prob. 10SA
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