#16 - Concept Reference, Must Be True

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[sarah_tucker@alumni.brown.edu]

Hi! Is D the correct answer based solely off of the sentence "lumpers... until recently was the dominant approach to species classification"?

I found it hard to pick an answer that felt relevant. Thanks!

[Adam Tyson]

That helps, Sarah, but I found the description of the phylogenetic concept as "increasingly popular" to be the most crucial evidence to support that answer. This is right in the first paragraph:

Splitters, on the other hand, tend to use the increasingly popular phylogenetic species concept

If it is increasing in popularity, it probably has more proponents now than it had previously, right?