Evolutionary Theory Would Have a Difficult Time Explaining Which of the Following

question 74

Multiple Choice

Evolutionary theory would have a difficult time explaining which of the following behaviors?

• A) A group of 8-year-old boys pretend to play soldiers at war.
• B) A group of 8-year-old girls are playing "house" and pretending to be mommies.
• C) A 9-year-old girl thinks using make-up is silly because she is going to be a doctor and doctors don't need make-up in the operating room.
• D) A 7-year-old boy tells his mother he wants to grow up to be a daddy and have a wife to take care of.

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Definitions:

Heterozygotes

Individuals having two different alleles of a particular gene, resulting in a mixture of genetic traits.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect, used as a starting point for statistical significance testing.

Allele Frequencies

The proportion of different genetic variants of a gene in a population, denoting the genetic diversity at that specific locus.

Mutation-Selection Balance

An evolutionary principle describing the equilibrium achieved when the rate of new mutations equals the rate of removal of disadvantageous alleles by natural selection.