Social Research Indicates That a Person Is Most Likely to Marry

question 23

Multiple Choice

Social research indicates that a person is most likely to marry someone from the same village or city,or a high school or college classmate.Therefore,the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium does not apply well to human populations because

• A)there is limited gene flow in the human population.
• B)selection of mates is random.
• C)individuals are not pairing up by chance across the whole population.
• D)the human population is small.
• E)natural selection is shaping mate choice in humans.

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