Which Conclusion Was Not Made from the Seminal 1979 Paper

question 27

Multiple Choice

Which conclusion was not made from the seminal 1979 paper by Gould and Lewontin?

• A) Natural selection in the present environment is just one of several processes by which a species may come to exhibit a trait.
• B) When physiologists refer to a trait as an adaptation, they are making a hypothesis that natural selection has occurred.
• C) Data must be gathered in order to assess whether adaptation is likely to have occurred.
• D) Indirect evidence cannot be used to support the hypothesis of adaptation.

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