Richard Potts Describes the Evolutionary History of the Human Species

question 80

Multiple Choice

Richard Potts describes the evolutionary history of the human species as "survival of the generalist" because

• A) our species is narrowly adapted to a specific environment.
• B) our species had the plasticity to survive the extremes of rapidly fluctuating climates of the Ice Ages.
• C) our ancestors' gene-based ability to cope with small environmental fluctuations was exapted to cope with larger and larger fluctuations.
• D) b and c