The Accompanying Figure Shows the Results of Comparative Analyses of Two

Multiple Choice

The accompanying figure shows the results of comparative analyses of two clades: the horseshoe crabs,and the king crabs and hermit crabs.What can you conclude from these diagram?

A) Horseshoe crabs have been on the Earth for an unusually long time.
B) King crabs appeared in the fossil record before horseshoe crabs did.
C) Hermit crabs are much older than their fossil record reveals.
D) Horseshoe crabs are as genetically divergent as king and hermit crabs, despite being far less morphologically diverse.
E) Horseshoe crabs have not been subjected to significant stabilizing selection.