Of all of the alternative hypotheses about how anthropoids first reached south america, scientists are most certain that the ancestors of new world primates rafted across the sea on islands of floating vegetation.

What was the national government’s biggest concern if facing a war, under the articles of confederation? the national government had no national military. the country had grown too large to defend with a small army. the states would not back the federal government. there was no way the states would pay for fighting a war.