Using molecular clock, it was estimated that two species X and Y must have diverged from their common ancestor about 5 x 10^6 years ago. If the rate of divergence per base pair is estimated to be 0.06 per million years, what is the proportion of base pairs that differ between the two species now?

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The geologists ________ expounded the principle of uniformitarianism, holding that the same processes operated in the past as in the present and that the data of geology should therefore be explained by causes that we can now observe.

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), who established the framework of modern taxonomy in his Systema Naturae (1735), won worldwide fame for his exhaustive classification of plants and animals, undertaken in the hope of discovering the pattern of the creation. Linnaeus classified,

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Christians interpreted the biblical account of Genesis literally and concluded that each species had been created individually by God in the same form it has today. This belief is known as

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

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

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Evolutionary biology extends and amplifies the explanation of biological phenomena. It complements studies of the proximate causes (immediate, mechanical causes) of biological phenomena If we ask what causes a male bird to sing, the proximate causes include the action of testosterone or other hormones

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#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

 If Darwin had been aware of genes and their typical mode of transmission to subsequent generations, with which statement would he most likely have been in agreement?