Why isn't the presence of similar traits in two organisms necessarily evidence that the two organisms shared a common ancestor?
A) The traits could have arisen by convergent evolution.
B) The traits could have evolved independently from two different ancestors.
C) The traits may not be homologous.
D) One of the traits could have reverted to an ancestral state.
E) All of the above
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