Which of the Following Statements Would Be Least Acceptable to Most

Multiple Choice

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

A) The extant lancelets are contemporaries,not ancestors,of vertebrates.
B) The first fossils resembling lancelets appeared in the fossil record around 530 million years ago.
C) Recent work in molecular systematics supports the hypothesis that lancelets are the basal clade of chordates.
D) The extant lancelets are the immediate ancestors of the fishes.
E) Lancelets display the same method of swimming as do fishes.