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Per the U.S. Census Bureau, the “White” racial category includes people that can trace their origins to Europe, Middle East and North _____.  One word.

Which prevailing idea at the time did Mendel’s pea plant experiments show to be false?

On average, how tall and large was Lucy’s species according to the film clip and textbook?

The “mystery person” from the race section is from which area?

Instead of a crest, H. erectus, H. naledi and other fossil species had a ____________, which is a rounded ridge along the top part of the cranium that may have helped anchor chewing muscles.  Two words.

The   ________ , is the space between the teeth that can allow the larger canines to fit in some primates. It is seen in apes, but not hominins.  One word.

This individual established the science of biological classification (taxonomy) and developed the use of binomial nomenclature.  

A giraffe starts out with a short neck; over its lifetime it stretches its neck to reach higher leaves and over the course of its life the giraffe’s neck has grown several inches.  This gain in neck length is passed on to its offspring.  This describes which concept?

According to the “Why Sex?” film, the tail of which animal initially stumped Charles Darwin since he couldn’t understand how it could evolve?

This taxonomic classification includes tarsiers and anthropoids.