Biology
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Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 55, Problem 2U
The potential for social interactions among individuals should be maximized when individuals
a. are randomly distributed in their environment.
b. are uniformly distributed in their environment.
c. have a clumped distribution in their environment.
d. None of the choices is correct.
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