Given That Humans Shifted from Hunter-Gathers to an Agriculturally Based

question 13

Multiple Choice

Given that humans shifted from hunter-gathers to an agriculturally based society within the last 10,000 years does NOT mean that ________.

• A) we cannot expect evolution by natural selection in human populations to have kept pace with our changing way of life
• B) humans still retain many, if not most, of the features that made us well adapted to living in the hunter-gatherer societies of the stone age
• C) we can use knowledge of the differences between our current lifestyle and the lifestyle of our pre-agricultural lifestyle to better understand both the peculiarities of humans and risks associated with our modern lifestyle
• D) humans are unique in that we have the capacity evolve by natural selection much more rapidly in response to changes in our environment than other organisms do

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