C. 2-2-2-3-3 because these are all prime just do the prime factorization tree
Answer:
Based on this data, The H.sapiens most likely to have lived at Flores would be an ancestor of Indonesian H.sapiens
Explanation:
- If H.florensiensis and H.sapiens lived together one would expect some sort of interbreeding between the two. This would make them share more genetic information.
- The DNA would differ in a few base pairs- enough for them to be different species but small enough to indicate interbreeding.
- This is the case with the Indonesian H.sapiens, the DNA sequence differs by 28 base pairs.
- The average North African and North American H.sapiens differs by 51 and 53 base pairs respectively - this is too much of a difference to indicate interbreeding
- The average H.sapiens differs from the other by 21 base pairs - this was a control to show that interbreeding populations will share a large proportion of DNA sequence similarity
