Multiple choice

Which among the following best supports the fact that, contrary to Gloger's Rule, many of dark complexioned human beings reside in temperate and even arctic regions today?

  1. When a population of lighter skin people migrates into far northern areas, natural selection makes their skin dark in only in the immediate next generation.

  2. Gloger's Rule is a hypothesis that cannot be applied to unverified scenario.

  3. Human societies had become very active in moving around the planet in recent centuries.

  4. When a population of lighter skin people migrates into far northern areas, natural selection makes their skin dark in all the next generations.

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The rate of evolutionary change for skin colour is much slower than the homogenizing effect of human migrations today. This process of interregional movements of societies has been accelerating, particularly since the time of Columbus.