Question 10

(Multiple Choice)

Before the 18th century,theories on the origin of species are best described as


A)nonexistent.
B)simple,with early Greek philosophers seeing fossils as destroyed life forms,but not placing them into an evolutionary concept.
C)foundational,with early Greek philosophers seeing fossils as a continuous lineage but merely lacking the genetic understanding to explain it.
D)complete,but poorly explained in modern scientific terms until Darwin wrote more clearly.

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