Paleoanthropologists Suspect That Perhaps More Than One Species Belonging to the Genus

question 50

Multiple Choice

Paleoanthropologists suspect that perhaps more than one species belonging to the genus Homo may have coexisted in eastern Africa in the early Pleistocene because

• A) Homo habilis show too much internal variation to all belong to the same species.
• B) more than one species of robust australopithecine coexisted in the late Pliocene.
• C) more than one species of gracile australopithecine has been found in southern Africa.
• D) both robust and gracile australopithecines coexisted in earlier periods.