Radiometric dating techniques available to anthropologists
A. work only for nonhuman primates, because genus Homo had culture.
B. have caused a re-evaluation of the fossil record since their 1991 development.
C. can only be used to date inorganic materials that are more than 1 million years old.
D. do not work well for hominin fossils, because such fossils are too young for the effective range of the techniques.
E. establish a probable date for fossils by calculating radioactive decay in the specimen found or the rocks surrounding it.
Answer: E
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