Why Has Sarah Hardy's Infanticide Hypothesis Been So Controversial

question 42

Multiple Choice

Why has Sarah Hardy's infanticide hypothesis been so controversial?

• A) Infanticide has never been controversial.
• B) There have been no cases of infanticide among primates observed in the wild, though some have been observed in the lab.
• C) The hypothesis uses the observation of infanticide among lions to infer that it happens among primates, with no additional proof.
• D) At first, the phenomenon was only rarely observed; some thought that since infanticide occurred in nature, this would justify it among humans.

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