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#Question id: 8922


Which statement is most consistent with the hypothesis that the Cambrian explosion was caused by the rise of predator-prey relationships?

#Section 2: Evolution
  1. increased incidence of worm burrows in the fossil record
  2. increased incidence of hard parts in the fossil record
  3. increased incidence of organic material in the fossil record
  4. increased incidence of fern galls in the fossil record
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#Question id: 15721

#Section 2: Evolution

Lamarck argued that species differ from one another because they have different needs, and so use certain of their organs and appendages. This hypothesis is known as?

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#Question id: 15722

#Section 2: Evolution

The variation that arises is directed toward fixed goals, so that a species evolves in a predetermined direction by some kind of internal drive, without the aid of natural selection. This hypothesis is known as,

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#Question id: 15723

#Section 2: Evolution

Neutral theory of molecular evolution of is given by,

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#Question id: 15724

#Section 2: Evolution

Neo-Lamarckism includes several theories based on the old idea of inheritance of modifications acquired during an organism’s lifetime. In a famous experiment done by,

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#Question id: 15725

#Section 2: Evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had independently conceived that

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#Question id: 4598

#Section 2: Evolution

Fossils of Thrinaxodon, a species that lived during the Triassic period, have been found in both South Africa and Antarctica. Thrinaxodon had a reptile-like skeleton and laid eggs, but small depressions on the front of its skull suggest it had whiskers and, therefore, fur. Thrinaxodon may have been warm-blooded. The fossils of Thrinaxodon are consistent with the hypothesis that ________.