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13 Dec 2019

Which of the following is not an example of evolution?

a. A farmer allows only short-haired sheep to reproduce, and subsequent generations of sheep have shorter and shorter hair.

b. A female crab mates with a large-clawed male instead of a small-clawed male, and 80% of her sons have large claws.

c. A parasite kills half of the crops in a field. At the end of the season the farmer collects the seeds. The next season the same parasite kills only 25% of the crops planted from these seeds.

d. A population of plants grown in nutrient-rich soil is 4.5 cm taller on average than an adjacent population grown in nutrient-poor soil.

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