Biology: Concepts and Investigations
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Chapter 15.4, Problem 2MC
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The information that the skeletal anatomy and DNA sequences in existing primates can give us about the study of human evolution.
Concept introduction:
Anatomical similarity is one line of the evidences that can help paleoanthropologist in tracing the course of human evolution. Other lines of evidences include fossil records and DNA similarities.
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