Why Is So Little Known About the Transition to Early

question 42

Multiple Choice

Why is so little known about the transition to early hominins?

• A) There are few Miocene ape fossils from Africa, which is where the earliest hominin fossils have been found.
• B) There are hardly any hominin fossils with which we can compare ape fossils.
• C) The Miocene ape fossils overlap with early hominins, and there are many intermediate forms.
• D) The transition to hominins happened very suddenly, and there are few comparable skeletal traits between them and the apes.

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