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How has whiteness evolved since the 1800s? Why is whiteness referred to as an "invisible knapsack of privileges"? What are some of the privileges that whites experience?


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Breeding Effort

The amount of resources and energy that an individual allocates to reproduction, including mating and raising offspring.

Home Range

The area in which an animal lives and moves on a periodic basis, encompassing the spaces it uses for food, mating, and shelter.

Altruistic

Behavior of an individual that benefits others at its own expense, often seen in social species as a way to enhance group survival.

Fitness Cost

Represents the negative repercussions on an organism's genetic contribution to future generations that can result from the expression of a particular phenotype.

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