While on His Beagle Voyage,Darwin's Biological Discoveries Led Him to Adopt

question 27

Multiple Choice

While on his Beagle voyage,Darwin's biological discoveries led him to adopt two general lines of thinking that would prove important to the development of his theory of evolution.These two lines of thinking emphasized the geographical distributions of species and the

• A) adaptive functions of animals' distinctive characteristics.
• B) genetic relationship between species.
• C) sexual behavior of animals.
• D) fundamental differences between human beings and other animals.

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