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Author: KRAUSKOPF, Konrad B.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Higher Education (us)
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Chapter 16, Problem 20MC
The theory of evolution is supported by which one or more of the following?
- a. the fossil record of organisms in the past
- b. the distribution of life forms around the world
- c. similarities in the anatomies of different species
- d. the occurrence of mutations
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