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cartlidgeashley

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Describe the adaptive significance of arrested development among wild orangutan males.
 
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The Natufians are associated with all of the following except:
 
  a. lived at the eastern end of the Mediterranean.
  b. buried their dead with many art objects and money.
  c. were an example of a Mesolithic culture in the Old World.
  d. lived in stone-walled houses in small villages, caves, and rock shelters.
  e. are the earliest known Mesolithic peoples to have cut grain and stored crops.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
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Arrested development means that during puberty some orangutan males do not fully develop secondary sexual characteristics for sometimes as much as 10 years. This delay serves to make the males less threatening to other males (and so less involved in fighting and other stressful situations). In the end, these males show a large percentage of contribution to the gene pool.

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