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The African captives that were unearthed in New York City had arrived to New York during the:
 
  a. 18th century
 b. 17th and 18th centuries
  c. 18th and 19th centuries
  d. 16th century

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Contrast ancestral traits with derived traits.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Ancestral traits are characters inherited by a group of organisms from a remote ancestor and not
diagnostic of groups (lineages) that diverged after the character first appeared. Derived traits
refer to those characters that are modified from the ancestral condition and thus diagnostic of
particular evolutionary linages.





 

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