Natural Selection

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Which condition for natural selection is missing from the following list? (agent of selection, Something in the environment that causes reproductive differences.) Place the number of the term listed on the right in the blank next to each of the statements on the left. Use each term once and only once . 5 Equal to the sum of personal reproduction and the reproduction of genetic relatives. 1 Accounts for patterns in alarm calls by ground squirrels and in cannibalism by spadefoot toads. 2 Results from the action of selfish genetic elements. 4 By consensus, the level of selection thought to be most important in the evolution of behavior. 3 Cited by Darwin to explain bravery in humans. 1 . kin selection 2 . meiotic drive 3 . group selection 4 . individual-level selection 5 . inclusive fitness Territoriality evolved for the good of the species. False Warning coloration evolved to perpetuate the species. False The long tongues of certain pollinators are thought to benefit the individuals that bear them. True

The oldest set of animal footprints found to date in the Grand Canyon are over 300 million years old, which means the animal that made them lived before dinosaurs existed. True Group selection is thought by many to be less important than individual selection because (choose all that apply): Individual selection is a simpler explanation and thus more likely to be the right explanation. Group selection can be undermined by cheaters favored under individual selection.

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