APFIVE Carbon-14 Dating and Molecular Clocks
Molecular clock data and carbon-14 dating are two methods used to investigate the evolutionary history of primate species. Which statement correctly describes a complementary aspect of these two methods?
A
Carbon-14 measures mutation rates while molecular clocks measure fossil ages
B
Carbon-14 dates recent fossils while molecular clocks estimate older divergence times
C
Carbon-14 and molecular clocks both measure the same evolutionary timeframes
D
Carbon-14 provides absolute dates while molecular clocks only show relative relationships
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