They rejected preservational bias because a total absence of breakage in two extinct species demonstrated that the fractures were not the result of abrasion wihtin the pits. 这句话什么意思啊,breakage 和 fracture 在全文中的意思有区别吗?
首先他说排除人口统计学,是不是因为人口统计学会把那些分为older的和younger的,(我觉得作者全文讨论断裂是基于讨论younger的,就是排出了越老断裂的就越多的干扰)然后作者说老的代表性不够,所以影响可以忽略了。然后D the methods used to determine animals’ ages in fossile samples tend to misidentify many older individuals as younger individuals 中把many older错认为是younger的,就是说这个选项首先强调older的增多了(many),然后还把他们归为了younger一类的,所以younger的断裂的比例就增大了,然后就影响了结果?