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Evolution and Natural Selection
Item EN049002: All dogs and cats share a common ancestor.
What do scientists find out when they trace the ancestors of dogs and cats?
- All dogs and cats living today share a common ancestor with each other that lived a very long time ago.
- All dogs share a common ancestor with each other, and all cats share a common ancestor with each other, but cats and dogs do not share a common ancestor with each other.
- Some dogs share a common ancestor with some cats, but all cats and dogs do not share a common ancestor with each other.
- Scientists cannot trace the ancestors of any two species back far enough to find out whether they had a common ancestor with each other.
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