Which of the Following Is True When Comparing Biological Evolution

question 49

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true when comparing biological evolution with cultural evolution?

• A) Both types of evolution occur extremely quickly, within a single generation.
• B) Biological evolution is faithful, while cultural evolution is not faithful.
• C) Both types of evolution must result in greater numbers of surviving offspring.
• D) Biological evolution is quicker than cultural evolution because the possibility of horizontal cultural transmission from multiple people overwhelms learners.
• E) Biological evolution leads to more useful ideas than cultural evolution does.

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Definitions:

Shared

A term referring to something that is used or belongs to more than one person or entity.

Cladistic Analysis

A method of analyzing the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms by classifying them based on common ancestry.

Outgroup

In cladistics, a taxon that represents an approximation of the ancestral condition; the outgroup is related to the ingroup (the members of the group under study) but separated from the ingroup lineage before they diversified.

Diverges

Moves or extends in different directions from a common point, or becomes fundamentally different in character or form.