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Passage Summary: Bees are great at seeing flower colors, but it's more likely that flowers changed to match what bees could already see, instead of bees changing to see the flowers.

Conclusion: Flowers likely evolved their colors to match the pre-existing vision of bees, rather than the other way around.

Reasoning: Although bee vision is perfectly suited for identifying flower colors, the causal direction of evolution favored the flowers adapting to the bees.

Analysis: To strengthen this causal claim, we need to find evidence that supports the 'bees came first' timeline. If we can show that the ancestors of modern bees possessed this specific color vision long before these colorful flowers appeared in the fossil record, the argument becomes much more persuasive. This would effectively eliminate the possibility that the flowers' colors were the catalyst for the bees' visual development. Look for an answer that provides a chronological or biological basis for bee vision existing independently of these specific flowers.

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Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the statement above?

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A supports the direction by showing bee‑like vision exists in many insects that don’t depend on color. That indicates such vision didn’t evolve primarily because of flower colors, making it more plausible that flowers evolved to match this widespread visual system.
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