Darwin's Breeding of Pigeons

question 20

Multiple Choice

Darwin's breeding of pigeons

• A) showed that breeding can produce a great deal of variation in traits.
• B) provided him with a mechanism of heredity.
• C) provided insight on the rate of new mutations.
• D) showed that most populations have little genetic variability.
• E) led him to conclude that individuals evolve.

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Classical Conditioning

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Latent Learning

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