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Conan O'Brien hosts the Conan show and Andy Richter, his sidekick, writes for it. Conan needs 4 hours to rehearse and host a good show. It takes Andy 10 hours to do the same. Conan writes one usable joke in an hour, but Andy needs 2 hours to do the same. From these numbers, we infer that Conan has a comparative advantage in the production of:


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Genetic Drift

A mechanism of evolution that results in a change in the frequency of alleles in a population due to random sampling of organisms.

Mutation

A permanent alteration in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene, which can result in a change in the physical traits or health of an organism.

Speciation

The process of forming new species.

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An extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that existed about 160,000 years ago, known from fossils found in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia.

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