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vinney12

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What is the term for a trait that organisms have jointly inherited from a common ancestor?
 
  A. analogy
  B. homology
  C. phenotype
  D. allele
  E. meiosis

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Primatology helps anthropologists make inferences about the early social organization of hominids and untangle issues of human nature and the origins of culture. Of particular relevance to these types of questions are two kinds of primates:
 
  A. those with whom we share the least number of homologies, and those with whom we share the most analogies.
  B. those that are in the tribe hominini, and those in the family hominidae.
  C. those whose ecological adaptations are similar to our own (terrestrial monkeys and apes), and those most closely related to us, the great apes (chimpanzees and gorillas).
  D. catarrhines and platyrrhines.
  E. Gigantopithecus and Pierolapithecus.


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shailee

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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C


vinney12

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Reply 2 on: Aug 11, 2018
:D TYSM

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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