Many paleontologists focus on teeth for several reasons, including that
A) teeth are not remodeled during life, so they carry a record of the animal's entire life history.
B) although teeth are the least likely body part to survive, they can be dated using the argon-argon method.
C) teeth are continuously remodeled throughout life, so they show the response an animal had to the environment in which it lived.
D) although the shape of teeth tells us little about diet, the wear on them indicates what the animal ate.
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