Research Indicates People Are Most Likely to Select a Mate

question 50

Multiple Choice

Research indicates people are most likely to select a mate from a nearby village or city,or high school or college.Therefore,the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium does not apply well to human populations because

• A)allele frequency changes in one direction are balanced by changes in the opposite direction.
• B)there is no directional trend in selection of mates since most individuals marry someone.
• C)individuals are not pairing up by chance across the whole population,and therefore mating is not random.
• D)we accumulate adaptive traits that improve the population.

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