During a study session about evolution, one of your fellow students remarks, "The giraffe stretched its neck while reaching for higher leaves: its offspring inherited longer necks as a result." Which statement would you use to correct this student's misconception?
a. Overproduction of offspring leads to a struggle for survival.
b. Spontaneous mutations can result in the appearance of new traits.
c. Characteristics acquired during an organism's life are not passed on through genes.
d. Disuse of an organ may lead to its eventual disappearance.
e. Only favorable adaptations have survival vlaue

Which of the following is not part of the constitution

In the case of furman v. georgia (1972), the united states supreme court ruled that the death penalty- in specific cases- being arbitrarily and inconsistently imposed, often in a discriminatory manner. as a result, the imposition of the death penalty as a punishment was stopped throughout the united states.

If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story of feldman’s bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics. yes, a lot of people steal from him, but the vast majority, even though no is watching over them, do not. this outcome may surprise some people—including feldman’s economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor-system scheme would never work. but it would not have surprised adam smith. in fact, theme of smith’s first book, the theory of moral sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “how selfish soever man may be supposed,” smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” which best describes the authors’ purpose in using a quotation from adam smith’s book the theory of moral sentiments? to highlight their knowledge of scottish philosophers to prove that people are inherently dishonest to demonstrate that incentive is the driving force behind cheating to lend credibility and additional support to their conclusion