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Darley and Latané observed that most university students failed to help a person having an epileptic seizure when they thought there were four other witnesses to the emergency. The students' failure to help is best explained in terms of


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Evolution

The method through which various types of life are believed to have evolved and branched out from ancestral forms throughout Earth's history.

Radioisotopes

Unstable isotopes that spontaneously emit radiation; also called radioactive isotopes.

Half-Life

The time required for half the atoms of a radioactive substance to decay or for a drug or other substance to lose half its pharmacologic, physiologic, or radiologic activity.

Potassium-40

A radioactive isotope of potassium used in dating geological materials, as it decays into argon-40 over a known period of time.

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