A scientific challenge in providing a full evolutionary explanation for the complex dance that worker bees perform is:
A) Accounting for the occurrence of the behavior before other bees responded to it
B) Explaining why experienced foragers leave even before the dance is finished
C) How bees adjust for changes in the position of the sun as they dance
D) Variations in the dance based on the bees habitat

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The challenge is explaining how the dance behavior evolved before other bees could respond to it, as the behavior would need to be beneficial from the start to be naturally selected.

A Scientific Challenge in Providing a Full Evolutionary Explanation for the Complex