Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To explain: How the idea of hypothesis that the characteristics of the father and mother are intermingled in the offspring called at that time prior to discoveries of Gregor Mendel.

Introduction: Natural selection of an organism depends upon the challenges faced by them for survival. The process by which the heritable trait of an organism differs or changes over successive generations is called evolution. The mechanism of inheritance explained by Charles Darwin insisted on the characteristic features of progeny obtained from their parents.

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To explain: How the idea of hypothesis that the characteristics of the father and mother are intermingled in the offspring was proved wrong.

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