Grouping Contemporaneous Species into Genera

question 51

Multiple Choice

Grouping contemporaneous species into genera

• A) is never a subjective process
• B) can be facilitated by identifying which species can interbreed and produce live, though not necessarily fertile, hybrid offspring
• C) is always easy and accurate
• D) is problematic and therefore not a common practice of physical anthropologists
• E) requires similarities between species in one genus and species of another genus.

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