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The need for new trade routes to the East, the desire to spread Christianity and <em>competition between European countries </em>prompted the start of European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Geographic isolation and different living conditions.
Explanation:
Both the Neanderthal and the Homo sapiens shared the same ancestor, the Homo erectus. The Homo erectus managed to spread from Africa to Eurasia. The populations started to become geographically isolated from each other, and over time this caused speciation.
The Homo erectus from the far East, with the one from Europe, or the one from Africa, didn't had contact. This was due to big distance and natural barriers. Gradually this species was evolving, and because of the different living conditions and the geographic isolation at different places it started to develop different characteristics. This has led to evolution of different species over time, with the Neanderthal evolving in Eurasia, as well as the Denisovan Man, while in Africa it was the Homo sapiens that emerged.
Popular culture is fluid and can change quickly. (A)
It has definitely changed throughout the years.
The population of Puerto Rico traces its ancestry in mostly the Spanish colonists and the indigenous people of the island. They have mixed over time and gradually created a mestizo population, which became the dominant population on the island and still is. There are of course some other influences in the gene pool of the Puerto Ricans, with some of it being from the African continent because of the African slaves that were brought, but it is a small minority, and it is also a population that has been heavily mixed.
