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Research has shown that woolly mammoth populations decreased in a given area as the ecology of the area developed into extensive forests of birch and conifers. This type of vegetation was not favorable for the mammoth and was difficult to digest.
Which position regarding mammoth extinction does this evidence support?

A.
The mammoth became extinct because of overhunting.

B.
The mammoth became extinct because of habitat destruction by humans.

C.
The mammoth became extinct because the climate changed and its habitat was lost.

D.
The mammoth became extinct because mammoth physiology changed with the climate.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. The mammoth became extinct because mammoth physiology changed with the climate.

Explanation:

"ecology of the area developed into extensive forests of birch and conifers" and "not favorable for the mammoth and was difficult to digest." Infers that the mammoth became extinct due to its digestive system rejecting the food that the area provided. It's digestive system required different foods, thus starving them into extinction.

Answer 2

The position regarding mammoth extinction does this evidence support is The mammoth became extinct because mammoth physiology changed with the climate.

What is mammoth ?

A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus, one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. They were members of the family Elephantidae, which also contains the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors. Mammoths are more closely related to living Asian elephants than African elephants.

The oldest representative of Mammuthus, the South African mammoth (M. subplanifrons), appeared around 5 million years ago during the early Pliocene in what is now southern and eastern Africa. Descendant species of these mammoths moved north and continued to propagate into numerous subsequent species, eventually covering most of Eurasia before migrating into North America around 1.5-1.3 million years ago, becoming ancestral to the Columbian mammoth (M. columbi). The last species to emerge, the woolly mammoth (M. primigenius), developed about 400,000 years ago in East Asia, with some surviving on Russia's Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, as well as possibly the Taymyr Peninsula on mainland Siberia, until as recently as roughly 3,700 to 4,000 years ago, still extant during the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt.

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