Biology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 4A
If you found a fossil for a modem organism next to the fossil of a dinosaur, this would
a. argue against evolution by natural selection.
b. have no bearing on evolution by natural selection.
c. indicate that dinosaurs may still exist.
d. Both b and c are correct.
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