Why has Sarah Hardy's infanticide hypothesis been so controversial?
A) Infanticide has never been controversial.
B) There have been no cases of infanticide among primates observed in the wild, though some have been observed in the lab.
C) The hypothesis uses the observation of infanticide among lions to infer that it happens among primates, with no additional proof.
D) At first, the phenomenon was only rarely observed; some thought that since infanticide occurred in nature, this would justify it among humans.

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The controversy stems from the rarity of observations initially and the ethical implications of justifying such behavior in humans based on its occurrence in nature.

Why Has Sarah Hardy's Infanticide Hypothesis Been So Controversial