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What are potential hypotheses (explanations) regarding why there are ecological equivalents between many metatherians and eutherians? discuss your hypothesis in terms of the processes that could lead to the current ecologies and distributions of metatherians and eutherians.

Given the parent function of [tex]f(x)=x^4[/tex], what change will occur when the function is changed to [tex]f(\frac{1}{2} x)[/tex]?

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