What Is One of the Probable Explanations of the Extinction

question 21

Multiple Choice

What is one of the probable explanations of the extinction of the later australopithecines?

• A) They were eventually unsuccessful in competing for available resources with early populations of Homo.
• B) The broad-spectrum revolution was not adaptive.
• C) They had no social organization.
• D) They were a short-lived transitional stage between apes and humans.
• E) They are relatively unimportant to the study of human evolution.

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