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Interpreting ancient DNA—a scientific approach that has grown powerfully during the past decade—reveals that human history is a story of mixing and migration at a scale and complexity that no one previously imagined. Waves of people and genes have flowed across oceans and continents for millennia, creating a ________ of admixture. Genetically, "race" is a broken concept, this work shows, because every population is a mixture of other populations—which are themselves mixtures of still earlier populations.4Mark for ReviewABCWhich choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?AdisciplineBoverturnCmosaicDstandard

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Interpreting ancient DNA—a scientific approach that has grown powerfully during the past decade—reveals that human history is a story of mixing and migration at a scale and complexity that no one previously imagined. Waves of people and genes have flowed across oceans and continents for millennia, creating a ________ of admixture. Genetically, "race" is a broken concept, this work shows, because every population is a mixture of other populations—which are themselves mixtures of still earlier populations.4Mark for ReviewABCWhich choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?AdisciplineBoverturnCmosaicDstandard

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The most logical and precise word to complete the text is "mosaic". This word is used metaphorically to describe a complex pattern or picture which is exactly what the text is describing - a complex pattern of human migration and gene flow. Therefore, the answer is Cmosaic.

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Sociologists claim that race is __________.A.a simple reflection of human biologyB.the same all over the worldC.a socially constructed conceptD.a concept that our society views as not importantSubmit

Match the early human ancestors to the time period in which they existed.

A contrary view of human migration is the ________ which argues that Homo sapiens evolved in geographic niches then migrated back & forth between breeding populations.Group of answer choicesVariation MigrationOut of AfricaMultiregional ModelPangean Path

Genetic diversity refers to:

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