The passage uses the metaphor of a dog walker to argue that evolutionary adaptation is most comprehensively understood as being determined by:

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The passage uses the metaphor of a dog walker to argue that evolutionary adaptation is most comprehensively understood as being determined by:

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A.
genetic, epigenetic, developmental factors, and ecological legacies.
B.
socio-cultural, genetic, epigenetic, and genomic legacies.
C.
ecological, hormonal, extra genetic and genetic legacies.
D.
extra genetic, genetic, epigenetic and genomic legacies.

Option is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

Answer to this question is in paragraphs 3 and 5. The last paragraph states that genomes, epigenetic modifications, inherited cultural factors and parental effects affect evolutionary adaption. Paragraph 3 groups epigenetics and parental effects under ‘developmental factors’ and also mentions ecological legacies. Option 1 covers all these influences comprehensively.