Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

  1. All genetically inherited characters have a clinal dissipation.

  2. Human biological races really exist.

  3. Of the three models of human variation, the clinal one comes closest to grabing the real nature of human variation.

  4. All genetically inherited characters have a typological distribution.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The typological model is scientifically unsound. The populational model is theoretically sound but of little value since we do not have distinct breeding populations. Only the clinal model explains most of human variation as we know it to be.

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