What Do Transitional Fossils Illustrate

question 13

Multiple Choice

What do transitional fossils illustrate?

• A) All life is related.
• B) Shared ancestral traits.
• C) Convergent evolution occurred in the ancient past.
• D) Natural selection happened long ago just as it does today.
• E) All transitional links are now extinct.

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Poverty Line

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