Why Are We So Unsure About the Adaptations of the Earliest

question 19

Multiple Choice

Why are we so unsure about the adaptations of the earliest primates?

• A) We still have very little fossil evidence of these animals.
• B) The diversity of primates is too big to study the animals efficiently.
• C) The animals were wiped out suddenly in an environmental catastrophe.
• D) The fossil remains are nearly identical to the skeletons of modern primates.

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