In 1998, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts published an article in The Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, a peer-reviewed journal. The article was titled “Environmental Hypotheses of Hominin Evolution.” Which statement would discredit Potts’s objectivity if it were included in the article?
A: I believe the human race is capable of great things.
B: The data show that the human population is adaptable.
C: The fossil record suggests huge variations in the human population.
D: Variation allows for the process of evolution.