Which of the Following Is NOT an Example of How

question 6

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of how selection is able to produce complex evolutionary changes in remarkably short periods of time?

• A) Using artificial selection, people intentionally created dozens of different forms of domesticated pigeons in just a few hundred years.
• B) A study of fish from the genus Poeciliopsis shows that short generation times allowed three different types of placenta to evolve in less than 2.4 million years.
• C) Theoretical studies of the evolution of the eye in an aquatic organism show that because of a short generation time, a complex eye could evolve in less than a million years.
• D) The fossil record indicates that the human brain took 2 million years to double in size.

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