Alfred Russel Wallace Studied and Helped to Demonstrate the Importance

question 112

Multiple Choice

Alfred Russel Wallace studied and helped to demonstrate the importance of several processes that determine the species composition of biogeographic regions.Processes studied by Wallace include all of the following except

• A) continental drift.
• B) natural selection.
• C) the rate and process of speciation.
• D) species discontinuities between the islands of Bali and Lombok.
• E) the mechanistic basis for continental drift.

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