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#Question id: 8897


Which of the following statements would be least acceptable to most zoologists?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. The extant cephalochordates (lancelets) are contemporaries, not ancestors, of vertebrates.
  2. The first fossils resembling cephalochordates appeared in the fossil record around 550 million years ago.
  3. Recent work in molecular systematics supports the hypothesis that cephalochordates are the most recent common ancestor of all vertebrates.
  4. The extant cephalochordates are the immediate ancestors of the fishes.