Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To discuss: The example of lactase persistence as it associates to human biocultural variation and a environmental conditions would those individuals carrying alleles for lactase persistence be favored.

Introduction: The evolution is defined as the alteration in the inherited characteritsics of an population of organisms by successive generations. The four forces of evolution that results in deviations from genetic equilibrium includenatural selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift.

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