The Idea of Inclusive Fitness Is Designed to Explain Why

question 85

Multiple Choice

The idea of inclusive fitness is designed to explain why:

• A) evolution occurs at the level of the gene,not the individual.
• B) altruism seems to contradict the principles of evolution.
• C) altruism acts through the process of kin selection.
• D) evolution involves maximizing transmission of common,not individual,genes.

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Definitions:

Statistical Probability

A measure quantifying the likelihood that an event will occur, calculated based on statistical evidence.

T-test

A technique in statistics for comparing the means of two groups to see if they differ in a statistically significant way.

Alpha

Often referred to as the level of significance in hypothesis testing, it represents the threshold at which the null hypothesis is rejected.

T-test

A statistical test used to compare the mean of two groups to see if there is a significant difference between them.