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CR · Critical Reasoning
605-655
Conclusion
The extinct earliest known ancestor of the cheetah, a large cat now found only in Africa, lived only in what is now western North America when the two continents were conjoined, as fossil skeletons found in North America but nowhere else indicate. That ancestor shared certain skeletal features with the cheetah but with no other cat.
If all of the information above is true, which of the following hypotheses does it most strongly support?
If all of the information above is true, which of the following hypotheses does it most strongly support?
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The cheetah, because of certain distinctive skeletal features, is an efficient predator.
B
The outward appearance of an animal can be reconstructed from its skeletal structure.
C
The cheetah's skeletal structure has remained unchanged since prehistoric times.
D
The ancestor of the cheetah had relatively few nonskeletal features in common with the modern cheetah.
E
The cheetah or an ancestor of it migrated to what is now Africa from what is now North America.
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