Which of the Following Is NOT a Contributing Factor in the Current

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor in the current disagreements over how to classify Middle Pleistocene hominins?

• A) There are very few fossils of Middle Pleistocene hominins, and no two appear to be from the same species.
• B) The time scale of the Middle Pleistocene fossil record is very short, so evolutionary changes may be more subtle than for earlier time periods for which there is less disagreement.
• C) Different anthropologists have different ideas about what processes shape human evolution during this period.
• D) Regardless of which model is correct, the hominins were distributed over a huge area and may have resided in diverse ecological niches, with changing levels of interaction and isolation among them.

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