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A) Evolutionary biologists give intrinsic hypotheses priority over byproduct hypotheses, and adaptive hypotheses are considered only after all else fails. B) Three examples of the contrast between intrinsic vs. byproduct vs. adaptive explanations of a phenomenon. The consensus on how much of the phenomenon is explained by each level is shown by the relative sizes of the ellipses. The primary explanations are in bold.
