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by mundasingh123 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:16 am
Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated nests, or bowers. Basing their judgment on the fact that
different local populations of bowerbirds of the same species build bowers that exhibit different building and
decorative styles, researchers have concluded that the bowerbirds' building styles are a culturally acquired,
rather than a genetically transmitted, trait.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the researchers?
(A) There are more common characteristics than there are differences among the bower-building styles of the
local bowerbird population that has been studied most extensively.
(B) Young male bowerbirds are inept at bower-building and apparently spend years watching their elders
before becoming accomplished in the local bower style.
(C) The bowers of one species of bowerbird lack the towers and ornamentation characteristic of the bowers
of most other species of bowerbird.
(D) Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia, where local populations of the birds apparently
seldom have contact with one another.
(E) It is well known that the song dialects of some songbirds are learned rather than transmitted genetically.

Could an Expert please explain how to emliminate A and D ,in particular
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by Ozlemg » Thu Jul 14, 2011 1:43 am
Then B?
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by mundasingh123 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:29 am
Ozlemg wrote:I am not an expert but want to share my 2 cents here:

conclusion is bower birds' building styles are a culturally acquired, rather than a genetically transmitted, trait.

(A) There are more common characteristics than there are differences among the bower-building styles of the local bowerbird population that has been studied most extensively. --> The commonality in charch.s of bowerbirds of local populations does indicate that, this trait is culturally acquired! if the case was vice versa, (there were more differences than similarities) we could conlcude that even they lived in the same local group, they inherently had different sytles. So this supports the conclusion.

(D) Bowerbirds are found only in New Guinea and Australia, where local populations of the birds apparently seldom have contact with one another. -->If local populations have seldom contact but still have the same styles, so this means the characteristics are genetically transferred
well your chosen answer is wrong
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