Richard Potts describes the evolutionary history of the human species as "survival of the generalist" because
A) our species is narrowly adapted to a specific environment.
B) our species had the plasticity to survive the extremes of rapidly fluctuating climates of the Ice Ages.
C) our ancestors' gene-based ability to cope with small environmental fluctuations was exapted to cope with larger and larger fluctuations.
D) b and c
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