Although many lines of evidence indicate that birds evolved from ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs, some scientists remain unconvinced. They argue that theropods appeared too late to have given rise to birds, noting that Archaeopteryx lithographic - the oldest known bird - appears in the fossil record about 150 million years ago, whereas the fossil remains of various nonavian maniraptor theropods - the closest known relatives of birds - date only to about 115 million years ago. But investigators have now uncovered bones that evidently belong to nonavian maniraptors dating to the time of Archaeopteryx. In any case, failure to find fossils of a predicted kind does not rule out their existence in an undiscovered deposit. Skeptics also argue that the fused clavicles (the "wishbone") of birds differ from the unfused clavicles of theropods. This objection was reasonable when only early theropod clavicles had been discovered, but fossilized theropod clavicles that look just like the wishbone of Archaeopteryx have now been unearthed. Finally, some scientists argue that the complex lungs of birds could not have evolved from theropod lungs, an assertion that cannot be supported or falsified at the moment, because no fossil lungs are preserved in the paleontological record.
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文章开头说女性的草根运动时期和他们对新文明意识的看法的核心来自于美国在大推进时期的社会改革。接着进一步解释在这一时期中产白人女性改革者取得的成就。接下来笔锋一转,在童工问 题上不同阶级女性看法不同。改革者认为必须剔除,但工人阶级则认为童工法会让家庭里干活的人变少,生活难以为继。最后是作者的评价,承认改革者要求不适用童工是正确的,但他们没有考 虑到工人阶级的家庭经济状况
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*选项分析:主旨题去看全文内容概述。本文的目的就是文章的结尾处说的中产阶级改革者没能够理解公认阶级的经济状况。因此正确答案是D

