Which early whale fossil had small vestigial hind limbs?
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Basilosaurus
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What is the name of the extinct "hobbit" hominid found in Indonesia?
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Homo floresiensis
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Allopatric speciation
What species does the fossil "Lucy" belong to?
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Australopithecus afarensis
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What is the name of the extinct "hobbit" hominid found in Indonesia?
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Homo floresiensis
What type of selection is based on mate choice?
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Sexual selection
What is the term for speciation due to a geographic barrier?
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Allopatric speciation
What species does the fossil "Lucy" belong to?
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Australopithecus afarensis
What is the term for using mutation rates to estimate evolutionary divergence times?
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Molecular clock
What type of natural selection maintains two or more alleles in a population?
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Balancing selection
Who discovered the structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick?
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James Watson
What is the name of the biological classification system invented by Linnaeus?
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Linnaean taxonomy
What is the term for the evolutionary history of a species?
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Phylogeny
Who proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics?
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
What type of structures are similar due to common ancestry?
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Homologous structures