East Asians Who Have Migrated Recently from India and Pakistan

question 5

Multiple Choice

East Asians who have migrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population. This illustrates that

• A) natural selection continues today.
• B) genetic adaptation of environmental stressors can occur within one generation.
• C) cultural adaptation provides effective shortcuts to the genetically disadvantaged in a foreign environment.
• D) because of global warming, the lack of sunlight that people are exposed to in these northern regions is made up for by the intensity of the sunlight.
• E) natural selection's role in determining skin color is a thing of the past, relevant only prior to the sixteenth century when massive populational migrations altered the geographic distribution of dark-skinned people.

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