Transitional fossils are fossils of organisms that have characteristics of their ancestors’ species and their descendants’ species. why do you think these fossils are important to the study of evolution? do you think the word transitional is a scientifically appropriate description for these fossils?
knowing how fossils form, do you think it’s likely that humans will ever piece together a complete fossil record for every species that ever existed on earth? why or why not?

Griffin correctly concludes that the coordinate pair for the russian federation is an influential point, because removing the russian federation from the relationship will significantly change the trend of the regression line. is an influential point, because removing the russian federation from the relationship will not significantly affect the estimated coefficient of determination of the regression line. is not an influential point, because the russian federation does not have the highest cvdir of all 1111 nations in the scatterplot. is an influential point, because removing the russian federation from the relationship will not significantly affect the estimated slope of the regression line. is not an influential point, because the russian federation has a positive residual in the least-squares linear regression.