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#Question id: 15717

 In The Origin of Species, Darwin propounded two major hypotheses:

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. that organisms have descended, with modification, from common ancestors; and that the chief cause of modification is natural selection acting on hereditary variation.
  2. that organisms have descended, with modification, from separate ancestors; and that the chief cause of modification is natural selection acting on hereditary variation
  3. “facts” are in some cases simple, confirmed observations; in other cases, a “fact” is a hypothesis that has acquired so much supporting evidence that we act as if it is true.
  4. A body of ideas about the causes of evolution
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#Question id: 11182

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

In general
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#Question id: 11776

#Section 4: Behavioural Ecology

According to optimal foraging theory, longer travel time
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#Question id: 10609

#Section 1: Ecology

The observation that members of a population are uniformly distributed suggests that
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#Question id: 11403

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Several categories of risk of species extinction have been defined. A species can be determined as critical endangered if there is considered to be
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#Question id: 4703

#Section 2: Evolution

Within a few weeks of treatment with the drug 3TC, a patientʹs HIV population consists entirely of 3TC-resistant viruses. How can this result best be explained?