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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. These people settled the Pacific islands and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago.

• A)Venus figurines
• B)Dreamtime
• C)Clovis culture
• D)megafaunal extinction
• E)Austronesian migrations
• F)"the original affluent society"
• G)shamans
• H)trance dance
• I)Paleolithic settling down
• J)Göbekli Tepe
• K)Fertile Crescent
• L)teosinte
• M)diffusion
• N)Bantu migration
• O)Ishi
• P)Banp--
• Q)"secondary products revolution"
• R)pastoral societies
• S)Çatalhüyük
• T)chiefdoms

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Definitions:

Natural Selection

Natural selection is a fundamental mechanism of evolution, where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Genetic Dominance

An allele that masks the effect of a recessive allele paired with it, determining the organism's appearance or trait manifestation.

Polygenic Transmission

The process by which multiple genes contribute to the phenotypic expression of a single trait or characteristic in an organism.

Natural Selection

A fundamental mechanism of evolution, where organisms with traits better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.