You Are Studying How Tools Have Evolved Through Cultural Evolution

question 29

Multiple Choice

You are studying how tools have evolved through cultural evolution. You find several instances where groups with very different technologies meet and there is a transfer of technology from one group to the other. This is analogous to what process in biological evolution?

• A) genetic drift
• B) natural selection
• C) Mendelian inheritance
• D) horizontal gene transfer

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