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-If snakes did evolve from burrowing lizards,which of the following is the most likely explanation for the selective advantage of snakes losing their hindlimbs?
Passive Margin
A continental margin that is not associated with a plate boundary and generally experiences less tectonic activity, often featuring thick sediment deposits.
Supercontinent
A massive landmass consisting of all, or nearly all, of the Earth's continents merged together, which has formed and broken apart several times in Earth's history.
Rodinia
An inferred supercontinent, consisting of all the continents joined, that existed near the Precambrian-Paleozoic boundary.
Taconic Orogeny
An early Paleozoic orogeny that occurred in the northern Appalachians and is interpreted to represent a collision between an island arc and North America.
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