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BiologyBiology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)Some human traits may have arisen by sexual selection. Over thousands of years, women attracted to charming, witty men perhaps prompted the development of human intellect beyond what was necessary for mere survival Men attracted to women with juvenile features may have shifted the species as a whole to be less hairy and softer featured than any of our simian relatives. Can you think or a way to test this hypothesis?

Some human traits may have arisen by sexual selection. Over thousands of years, women attracted to charming, witty men perhaps prompted the development of human intellect beyond what was necessary for mere survival Men attracted to women with juvenile features may have shifted the species as a whole to be less hairy and softer featured than any of our simian relatives. Can you think or a way to test this hypothesis?

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Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Ch. 17 - Resistance to Rodenticides in Wild Rat Populations...Ch. 17 - Resistance to Rodenticides in Wild Rat Populations...Ch. 17 - Resistance to Rodenticides in Wild Rat Populations...Ch. 17 - Resistance to Rodenticides in Wild Rat Populations...Ch. 17 - ___ is the origin.al source of new alleles. a....Ch. 17 - A neutral mutation _______ . a. has a pH of 7.0 b....Ch. 17 - Change in allele frequency of a population is...Ch. 17 - A wild population of pea plants has two alleles...Ch. 17 - Which of the following is not part of how we...Ch. 17 - Sexual selection frequently influences aspects of...
Ch. 17 - The persistence of sickle-cell anemia in a...Ch. 17 - ___ tends to keep populations of a species similar...Ch. 17 - Which is required for a population to evolve? a....Ch. 17 - In many bird species, sex is preceded by a...Ch. 17 - After fire devastates all of the trees in a wide...Ch. 17 - True or false? Inbreeding can increase the...Ch. 17 - The difference between sympatric and parapatric...Ch. 17 - Natural selection does not explain ______ . a....Ch. 17 - Match the evolution concepts. ____ gene flow a....Ch. 17 - Species have traditionally been characterized as...Ch. 17 - Rama the cama, a llama-camel hybrid, was born in...Ch. 17 - Two species or antelope, one from Africa, the...Ch. 17 - Some human traits may have arisen by sexual...Ch. 17 - About 70 percent of flowering plants are...

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