Naegleria fowleri, also known as the ‘brain-eating amoeba’, causes deathly amebic meningoencephalitis in humans.  However, this pathogen is typically free-living and humans cannot transmit them to any other potential host.  What type of virulence evolution hypothesis does this demonstrate?   a. Coincidental evolution hypothesis   b. Short-sighted evolution hypothesis   c. Cost/trade-off evolution hypothesis

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  1. Naegleria fowleri, also known as the ‘brain-eating amoeba’, causes deathly amebic meningoencephalitis in humans.  However, this pathogen is typically free-living and humans cannot transmit them to any other potential host.  What type of virulence evolution hypothesis does this demonstrate?

      a.

    Coincidental evolution hypothesis

      b.

    Short-sighted evolution hypothesis

      c.

    Cost/trade-off evolution hypothesis

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