Your Professor Hires a Teaching Assistant to Grade Student Assignments

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Essay

Your professor hires a teaching assistant to grade student assignments even though he may do the task faster and perhaps more accurately. How can you explain this behavior using the theory of comparative advantage?

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Definitions:

Traits Passed

Characteristics or qualities that are genetically transferred from parents to offspring through the process of inheritance.

Common Ancestry

The shared genetic heritage between two or more entities, indicating they originated from the same ancestor.

Natural Selection

The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, a core concept of evolutionary theory.

Genetic Evolution

The changes in allele frequencies within a population over time, due to mechanisms such as natural selection and genetic drift.