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A scientist uses radioactive dating to determine the age of a fossil and discovers that a hominid species may have existed much earlier in history than he thought. Which of the following would most likely increase the reliability of this finding? (3 points)

Using radioactive dating to find the age of fossils found in the same geographic location

Repeated analyses of the fossil finding it to be the same age each time

Publication of his findings in different paleontology magazines

Using radioactive dating to determine the age of similarly shaped fossils

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Repeated analyses of the fossil finding it to be the same age each time.

Why: replication of measurements reduces the chance the result is due to lab error, contamination, or random error and thus increases confidence in the age estimate. (Dating additional, independent samples or using different dating methods would further strengthen reliability.)